TY - BOOK ID - 15992142 TI - Old Deseret Live Stock Company : a stockman's memoir PY - 2008 SN - 1282445820 9786612445828 0874217121 0874217113 9780874217124 9780874217117 9780874217117 087421694X 0874216931 9780874216943 9780874216936 1646421582 PB - Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Deseret Live Stock Company -- History. KW - Frischknecht, W. Dean. KW - Great Basin. KW - Great Basin - Discovery and exploration. KW - Great Basin - Geography. KW - Ranch life -- Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho). KW - Scientific expeditions - Great Basin - History - 19th century. KW - Sheep ranchers -- Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho) -- Biography. KW - Simpson, J. H - Travel - Great Basin. KW - Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho) -- Biography. KW - Sheep ranchers KW - Ranch life KW - Regions & Countries - Americas KW - Agriculture KW - History & Archaeology KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Animal Sciences KW - United States Local History KW - Deseret Live Stock Company KW - History. KW - Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho) KW - Sheep farmers KW - Sheepmen KW - Frischknecht, Dean KW - Deseret Livestock Company KW - Wasatch Front (Utah and Idaho) KW - Wasatch Mountains (Utah and Idaho) KW - History US. KW - Scientific expeditions KW - Expeditions, Scientific KW - Scientific voyages KW - Voyages, Scientific KW - Farm life KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Farmers KW - Ranchers KW - Shepherds KW - Rocky Mountains KW - History KW - Travels KW - Voyages and travels KW - Simpson, J. H. KW - Travel KW - Great Basin KW - Discovery and exploration. KW - Simpson, James Hervey, KW - Basin and Range Province KW - Intermontane region KW - Intermountain Region (U.S.) KW - Intermountain West (U.S.) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15992142 AB - In the high country of the northern Wasatch Mountains, lies what is left of one of the West's largest ranches. Deseret Live Stock Company was reputed at various times to be the largest private landholder in Utah and the single biggest producer of wool in the world. The ranch began as a sheep operation, but as it found success, it also ran cattle. Incorporated in the 1890s by a number of northern Utah ranchers who pooled their resources, the company was at the height of successful operations in the mid-twentieth century when a young Dean Frischknecht, bearing a recent degree in animal s ER -