Strategies and Stories of the Omaha Stockyards by James P. Leary and Stephen Berigan, RRH Creation Printing and Book Publication, Monee, Illinois, 2025.
I found parts of this book very fascinating, and another part not so much. However the book starts with the ins and outs of the Stockyard business from the perspective of a broker. The process of selling cattle, without a paper contract but a handshake was very interesting. The Omaha Stockyards were the largest in the world for a time, and then the bubble burst as people started building meat packing plants closer to the cattle rather than shipping cattle great distances. The stockyards went form 1883 to 1997. The livestock exchange building still stands and is a medical clinic and apartment building with two dance floors. The property is now Metro Community College.
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