I desire to acknowledge the personal assistance and supervision of Professor H. P. Rusk under whose direction the work was planned and carried on. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES Added opening quotation marks to all paragraphs where a quotation spans several paragraphs. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed. Enclosed underlined font in _underscores_. Enclosed signatures in ~tildes~. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of History of the Beef Cattle Industry in Illinois, by Frank Webster Farley