Publisher's Synopsis
The Purdys: A Cattle FamilyThe story begins in 1887, when Grant Purdy began studying cattle pedigrees and purchased his first purebred Shorthorn cow and bull. It follows four generations and twelve members of the Purdy family with a love of purebred beef cattle. A close-knit family that lived within a few miles of each other and worked together on Purdy Brothers Shorthorns in northwest Missouri. The story describes the effect of the farm depression that eventually led to all the members of the family interested in purebred beef cattle leaving Missouri for other parts of the United States. They worked on
