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CHAPTER Xin— SOME ROUSING DEMONSTRATIONS. 

 The Ohio show of 1888 — Earl of Shadeland 22d — The big show 

 moves west — Western shows of 1888 — Lady Wilton vs. 

 Princess Alice — New alignment in 1889 — Earl of Shade- 

 land 30th — Gosling upsets Stocking's work — Clark's "clean- 

 up" at Peoria — Cherry Boy champion — ^The eastern circuit 

 of 1890 — The shows of 1891 — John S. Carlyle — Eastern 

 circuit of 1891 — Death of C. M. Culbertson — Hereford con- 

 stitutions in evidence — Death of Anxiety 3d — The eastern 

 circuit of 1892 — ^Funkhouser enters the lists — ^World's 

 Columbian Exposition — Ancient Briton — Sitting Bull — 

 Lamplighter — Anxiety-Peerless again — Miss Be£iu Real 3d 

 — ^Annabel — Lady Daylight — Bright Duchess 15th — The 

 championships — Dark days — ^A desperate depression 556-620 



CHAPTER XIV— DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH. 

 At the fairs of '94 — Some notable transactions — Charles S. 

 Cross begins showing — Lars and Free Lance — Trade 

 slowly revives in 1896 — Ancient Briton goes to Texas — 

 The shows of 1897 — ^A memorable Minnesota contest — A 

 typical breed battle — "The gory hill of Hamline" — First 

 appearance of Dale — John Lewis and his troubles at 

 Springfield — Beau Real's Maid, Juno and Dewdrop — Death 

 of Adams Earl 621-646 



CHAPTiai XV— CLEARING SKIES. 

 The Cross importation — $3,000 for Salisbury — Good buying by 

 George H. Adams — Over $400 average for 144 cattle — 

 Other sales in the spring of '98 — Beau Donald shown — 

 Dale vs. Sir Bredwell — ^Two inbred toppers: Everest and 

 Benison — The Omaha Exposition — Sir Bredwell beats Free 

 Lance — Dale wins again — Thickset and Hesiod 29th — 

 George Adams' Orpheus — Hesiods again — The great cows 

 and heifers of 1898 — Dewdrop — Dolly 5th — Diana — Car- 

 nation — Group and championshfti prizes — K. B. Armour 

 active — Death of George W. Henry — Another Gudgell- 

 Funkhouser sale — Death of Charles B. Stuart — Spring 

 sales of 1899 — The curtain falls on stirring scenes — Incep- 

 tion of the American Royal , 646-678 



CHAPTER XVI— THE LONG TRAIL. 

 ^be Spanish Longhom — Capt. Richard King — Santa Gertrudis 

 — Packing houses in embryo— Capt. Kennedy — First efforts 

 at Improvement — Breeding up the native stocK — The Mor- 

 mon cattle — Pacific Coast cattle — Shorthorn crosses in evi- 

 dence — The great migration 679-692 



CHAPTER XVII— FIRST HEREFORDS ON THE RANGR 

 Making good — ^First Hereford sale in the west — ^The Hawes 

 and Campbell herds — Hereford endurance demonstrated — 

 On the northern range — The Swan Land and Cattle Co. — 



