Old Deseret Live Stock Company : A Stockman's Memoir / / W. Dean Frischknecht.
In the high country of the northern Wasatch Mountains, lies what is left of one of the West's largest ranches. Deseret Live Stock Company was reputed at various times to be the largest private landholder in Utah and the single biggest producer of wool in the world. The ranch began as a sheep op...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2008. ©2008. |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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| Summary: | In the high country of the northern Wasatch Mountains, lies what is left of one of the West's largest ranches. Deseret Live Stock Company was reputed at various times to be the largest private landholder in Utah and the single biggest producer of wool in the world. The ranch began as a sheep operation, but as it found success, it also ran cattle. Incorporated in the 1890s by a number of northern Utah ranchers who pooled their resources, the company was at the height of successful operations in the mid-twentieth century when a young Dean Frischknecht, bearing a recent degree in animal s |
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| ISBN: | 1282445820 9786612445828 0874217121 |
| Access: | Open Access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | W. Dean Frischknecht. |