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189 Is This the Episode Where We Get Cowboys? Cattle & Beef in the Late 19th Century
I wanna be a cowboy? Maybe?
Anyway - there were 50 years of the Good Cowboy Years... and the way the interacted with the opening up of the Louisina Purchase (remember that?) and the US Civil War and the arrival of the railroad did so much to shape the American relationship with meat - and particularly beef.
Find out how the American stove top steak came into being.
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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