Yesterday the Coyote Sang : part 2

Series: Glory Trail Series

Duration: 0:30:00

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: As the program unfolds the cattlemen’s economic troubles, it also concentrates on another major problem – the incoming farmer with his wire fences, plows and sod homes. With the land being rapidly fenced in, the west of the wide open spaces was doomed and the beginnings of a new west came about. The rancher did not give in easily, there was bloodshed; but in the end, he had to adapt to the new life of the west. The program ends with a sequence on modern day methods of ranching, branding, feeding, and marketing of cattle. Two colorful events are related in this program. One concerns Billy the Kid and rustling in Lincoln County, New Mexico. The other deals with a character named Cattle Kate and her boyfriend, Jim Averill. The setting is in Johnson County, Wyoming in 1889; Cattle Kate had a thriving business – she would take rustled cattle as payment for an evening’s entertainment, with boyfriend Averill serving as “front” for the rustlers. But, as every aficionado of the Hollywood westerns knows they received their just reward – a posse, a capture, and two more hangings from a tree., Continues the story of cattle ranching to reveal some of the cattleman's economic troubles and his chief enemy, the intruding farmer with his agrarian ways, wire fences, plows, and sod home. Shows that as the land rapidly became subdivided by wire, the "wide open spaces" of song and dream were destined to vanish. Indicates that the rancher did not give in easily, but in the end cattlemen adapted to the "new West." Concludes with a sequence on modern methods of ranching, showing branding, feeding, and marketing of cattle.

Complete Record: , Continues the story of cattle ranching to reveal some of the cattleman's economic troubles and his chief enemy, the intruding farmer with his agrarian ways, wire fences, plows, and sod home. Shows that as the land rapidly became subdivided by wire, the "wide open spaces" of song and dream were destined to vanish. Indicates that the rancher did not give in easily, but in the end cattlemen adapted to the "new West." Concludes with a sequence on modern methods of ranching, showing branding, feeding, and marketing of cattle.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.