678 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



This remarkable event proved the foundation of 

 the "American Royal", that has ever since focused 

 annually the attention of western cattle growers 

 upon the Kansas City exhibition established under 

 that name. This show really marks the beginning 

 of the end of our story of the permanent establish- 

 ment of Hereford cattle breeding in the United 

 States. What remains to be told relates largely 

 to the Herefordizing of the range, and to the latter- 

 day achievements of the more successful breeders 

 and exhibitors of pedigree "white faces" in the 

 older states. We digress therefore at this point to 

 discuss the introduction and dissemination of the 

 blood on the open range, which after all was the 

 great point towards which all this work with the 

 pedigree "white faces" had really been tending. 



