A Cow's Life: The Surprising History of Cattle and how the Black Angus Came to be Home on the Range

M. R. Montgomery's own keen interest in cows began years ago on his cousin's Montana cattle ranch, and in a Cow's Life he traces their history from the formidable, long-extinct aurochs - the six-thousand-pound ancestor of all cattle on Earth - to the ancient cattle roads and drives in England to the selective breeding practices employed by British cattlemen well before Charles Darwin or Gregor Mendel.