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CHAPTER SUMMARY AND NOTES

CHAPTER 6 - ON THE RANGE

Summary

In the opening section of Chapter 6, Schlosser visits with Hank, a Colorado rancher. Hank gives Schlosser a tour of his ranch, with the intent of showing him the difference between what he does and “raping the land.” Hank takes many precautions in raising cattle, so that the land remains lush and fertile. In contrast, the mass development of Colorado Springs wreaks havoc on the landscape.

The next section of the chapter, “A New Trust,” offers a brief history of the early twentieth century efforts to break up the Beef Trust, in which five meatpacking companies had a monopoly on the meatpacking industry. While this trust was effectively busted, allowing ranchers to sell their cattle at competitive prices for a few decades, the Reagan administration allowed the top four meatpacking companies to.......... c

Notes

The opening section of this chapter juxtaposes strikingly different pictures of the Colorado landscape. On one hand the reader sees “natural,” verdant land, and on the other, the noisy, dirty development. Schlosser’s description of the encroachment of the “machine” on the “garden” is a recognizable trope in American literary history (as first articulated by Leo Marx in his The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America). The anxiety about the fusion between the pastoral and the progressive expressed in this section is a..........

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