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little brute, and has played an important part in the 

 substitution of sleek grade Herfords and Short -horns 

 for the bull -headed bison and the treacherous coyote. 

 Juicy, marbleized steaks have been substituted for the 

 dry, leathery, tough bison meat; and farms and homes, 



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FIG. 28. Gaited broncho. American-bred 



corn and cattle, and "God's country" have taken the 

 place of the wigwam, the Indian, the coyote and the 

 desert. Without him, the wild hordes of the rocky fort- 

 resses, and the illimitable windy plains now burning 

 hot, now bleak and cold as Iceland, would not have been 

 settled and civilized for many long years. But for the 



