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Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller & Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858. Industrial Cowboys examines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, consolidated the West's most extensive land and water rights, swayed legislatures and courts, monopolized western beef markets, and imposed their corporate will on California's natural environment.

Cattle trade --- Animal industry --- Packing-houses --- Land use --- Water rights --- Big business --- Industrialization --- Industrial development --- Economic development --- Economic policy --- Deindustrialization --- Economic concentration --- Business --- Business enterprises --- Industries --- Rights, Water --- Water --- Riparian rights --- Water trusts --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Meat packing industry --- Packing industry --- Red meat processing plants --- Food processing plants --- Meat industry and trade --- Animal products industry --- Livestock industry --- Agricultural industries --- Cattle industry --- History. --- Size --- Law and legislation --- Miller & Lux --- Miller and Lux --- agriculture. --- american west. --- beef markets. --- business. --- butchers. --- california. --- economics. --- environment. --- ethnicity. --- frontier. --- history. --- immigrants. --- immigration. --- industrial enterprises. --- industrialism. --- labor. --- land acquisition. --- land reclamation. --- land rights. --- landscapes. --- meatpacking. --- miller and lux. --- monopoly. --- natural resources. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- rags to riches. --- rancheros. --- san francisco. --- segregation. --- water politics. --- water rights. --- waterscapes. --- western industrialism.