The Longhorn Collapse

Stampedes, Disease, and Death Behind the Cattle Drives

By David Malcolm Llewellyn

The cattle drive was not a sunset.

It was a supply chain.

In The Longhorn Collapse, David Malcolm Llewellyn dismantles the romantic mythology of the American cattle drive and reconstructs it as it functioned in reality: a volatile industrial corridor that consumed livestock, labor, and land in pursuit of northern profit.

Between post-Civil War Texas overstocking and Kansas railhead consolidatio...