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Scope and Contents Reports statistics both unusual and important. Two pages provide record of the "List of Brands Bought – Cattle" with a sketch of each of the brands and in most cases the number of cattle acquired bearing that brand. A frequent entry in the stock census is "killed by train" as Huning cattle were grazing the open range, the total for the years 1885 through 1888 is 117 cattle killed in this period. This renews meaning of the now archaic term "cowcatcher" on the front of a railway locomotive. The...