JOHN CARR INC
SEMINOLE, FLORIDA

This 400-page non-fiction history provides a well researched and documented account regarding the who, what, where, when and why behind what became known as The World’s Largest Roundup and the basis for the author’s Grandfather, John E. Carr being named a Cowboy of 1902 for his participation in the roundup. . The discovery of gold in California sent a torrent of settlers west across central Nebraska bisecting the migratory route of the Bison and as a consequence, the hunting grounds of the Plains Indians. The Sioux, aware of the fate of their brethren of the east, set out to stop the settlers. The result was war, followed by the conditional surrender by the United States and an agreement that if the Plains Indians would not attack the western bound settlers, the United States would provide them with an area restricted to and solely controlled by the Sioux. This area was equal in size to the combined area of several north-eastern states. As an alternative to following the Bison, the United States agreed to provide one pound of beef every day for each and every Native American over the age of four. The need for the beef precipitated many of the well known cattle drives from the southern states to the areas that surrounded the reservations. Over the years, free grazing and rogue Longhorns so infested the unfenced open prairie of western South Dakota, that in 1901, President Roosevelt ordered their removal, an act that resulted in the Roundup of 1902 and the end of an era. This 400-page non-fiction history provides a well researched and documented account regarding the who, what, where, when and why behind what became known as The World’s Largest Roundup and the basis for the author’s Grandfather, John E. Carr being named a Cowboy of 1902 for his participation in the roundup. . The discovery of gold in California sent a torrent of settlers west across central Nebraska bisecting the migratory route of the Bison and as a consequence, the hunting grounds of the Plains Indians. The Sioux, aware of the fate of their brethren of the east, set out to stop the settlers. The result was war, followed by the conditional surrender by the United States and an agreement that if the Plains Indians would not attack the western bound settlers, the United States would provide them with an area restricted to and solely controlled by the Sioux. This area was equal in size to the combined area of several north-eastern states. As an alternative to following the Bison, the United States agreed to provide one pound of beef every day for each and every Native American over the age of four. The need for the beef precipitated many of the well known cattle drives from the southern states to the areas that surrounded the reservations. Over the years, free grazing and rogue Longhorns so infested the unfenced open prairie of western South Dakota, that in 1901, President Roosevelt ordered their removal, an act that resulted in the Roundup of 1902 and the end of an era.