Valuable account of the proceedings of the convention, with short biographies of many prominent cattlemen. First printed separately the same year, as Memorial Sketch of the First National Convention of Cattlemen..., containing about 90 additional pages which were a list of all of those attending, and an actual transcript of the proceedings, but as Reese notes, this abridged printing "contains the gist of what was discussed." He also elaborates on the importance of the work, calling it the record "of one of the most important conventions of cattlemen, meeting as it did at the peak of the cattle boom. The great topics of discussion were Texas fever and the proposed National Cattle Trail. Cattlemen from throughout the West were present." -Reese Six Score 115; Adams Herd 2536; Howes W516,