It would not be accurate to say that the cattle industry was basically much influenced or governed by northern or eastern men.

In practically all of its great phenomena the frontier of the old cow-range was southern by birth and growth.
There lay, then, so long unused, that vast and splendid land so soon to write romantic history of its own, so soon to come into the admiration or the wonder of a great portion of the earth--a land of fascinating interest to the youth of every country, and a region whose story holds a charm for young and old alike even today.

It was a region royal in its dimensions.

Far on the west it was hedged by the gray-sided and white-topped mountains, the Rockies.

Where the buffalo once lived, the cattle were to live, high up in the foothills of this great mountain range which ran from the Rio Grande to Canada.