Working for Stuarts
Subtitle: life on one of the oldest and largest cattle farms east of the Mississippi
By: Kathy Shearer
Publisher: Clinch Mountain Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Emory, Virginia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 575
ISBN-13: 9780972476577
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Family; Employees; Stuart Land & Cattle Company of Virginia; Farms; Cattle trade; Biography; Ranches; Cattle breeders; Farm life; Ranch life; History
Description: "Chronicles the labor and lives of people who worked on one of the oldest and largest cattle farms east of the Mississippi, Stuart Land & Cattle Company. Organized in 1884, at its peak, the Stuart Land & Cattle Company's farmland covered over 45,000 acres, mainly in Russell County, with smaller acreage in Tazewell, Smyth, and Washington counties. The Company had four holdings: the Elk Garden, Rich Mountain, Rosedale, and Clifton farms. This book presents a history of Stuart Land & Cattle Company and its sister operation, Elk Garden Products, as told by the people who worked the thousands of acres at Clifton, Rosedale, Rich Mountain, and Elk Garden, and the ones who managed the Company."--
Notes: Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 554-557) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Smith family settles in Southwest Virginia --; title: William Alexander Stuart : the Saltville years --; title: Building the empire --; title: Henry Carter Stuart's reign : land, cattle, and politics --; title: Harry Stuart and the Elk Garden Farm --; title: Bill and Walter Stuart and Reginald Lanier : resurrecting the Company --; title: Zan and Lynda Stuart : moving ahead with the times --; title: Managing for success --; title: Life on the Elk Garden Farm --; title: Life on the Clifton Farm --; title: Life on the Rich Mountain Farm --; title: Bringing out the timber --; title: Life on the Rosedale Farm.