Raising steaks : the life and times of American beef / Betty Fussell.
Author: Fussell, Betty Harper.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Orlando : Harcourt, c2008.
ISBN: 9780151012022
0151012024
Description: 402 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject: Beef cattle United States History.
Beef industry United States History.
Beef United States.
Cookery (Beef).
Contents: The cowboy and the machine -- Beefy boys -- Breaking the wild -- Playing cowboy -- The new range wars -- Circling the wagons -- Buffalo commons -- Greening beef -- Good breeding -- The smell of Greeley -- Slaughterhouse blues -- Riding point for the industry -- Mad cows and ethanol -- Beef : it's what's for dinner -- The united steaks of America.