An agricultural journalist and editor for over 35 years, this is Ewan's first book. It tells the fascinating, lesser known story of a small group of Dundee businessmen who, in the 1880s, took the bold risk to invest 5,000 miles from home at the very frontier of the Texan ‘Wild West’.
Prompted by the discovery of some beautifully hand written accounts ledgers in a locked safe and a series of curious coincidences and connections, Ewan has followed the story from Dundee, which was one of the wealthiest cities in Europe at the time, and across Scotland to Texas.
This book is the extraordinary historical account of how these Dundee businessmen built one of the largest and best managed cattle empires in the United States, The Matador. They were the Dundee Matadors.
When the Matador Land and Cattle Company was founded in 1882, it was only one of 31 British owned ranching companies operating in the American West. The fact that it was by far the longest lived and the most successful owes much to the character and skill of the people involved on both sides of the Atlantic. This is their story.
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