Historical Phases Of The Sheep Industry In Wyoming

COL EDWARD N. WENTWORTH

Publication: Privately printed for Armour's Livestock Bureau, 1940, N P Chicago

First edition. 8vo. 9 3/4" x 3 1/2" pictorial wrappers, 46 [2] pp. (includes covers). This is an address by Col. Edward N. Wentworth, Director of Armour's Livestock Bureau, Chicago, Illinois, Before Wyoming Wool Growers' Association Convention, Worland, Wyoming, August 2, 1940. Wentworth's talk provides a complete historical perspective for the Wyoming Wool Growers Association. Herd 2469 says "Scarce" and "Contains some information on the cattle-sheep wars of Wyoming."

Colonel Edward Norris Wentworth (1887–1959) was an prominent American author, agriculturalist, and military officer who became one of the nation's leading authorities on the history and economics of the American livestock industry. He was also Director of Armour's Livestock Bureau; Professor of Animal Breeding.

The rear cover was used as the mailing side and is addressed to "Wyoming State Tribune, Cheyenne, Wyoming," and posted as sent by "Wyoming Wool Growers Association, McKinley, Wyoming," and sent for a one-cent stamp that is still attached. Very good, clean tight copy.