Contents: The Great Boom in Range Cattle, 1880-85 (Genesis of the Boom – The Collapse of the Boom – Recovery—Striving for Security on the Cattle Range) --- Increase in Sheep Accentuated Bitter Struggle for Range --- Settlement Intensifies Tendency to Range Depletion ---Establishment of Public-Land Control a Stabilizing Factor --- World War Boom and Post-War Depression Bring Heavy Demands on Range --- Drought Added to Excess Stocking Works Havoc on Range --- Issues Growing Out of Range-Use History (Droughts – Depletion – Need for Basic Technical Knowledge – Too-Small Ranch Units – Cycles of Boom and Depression).
