Cattle industry
- Created by: emcgold
- Created on: 04-02-20 19:06
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- CATTLE INDUSTRY CHANGES
- UP TO 1895
- Excess supply
- By 1895, /'overstocking'
- due to lots of investors and entrepreneurs overinvesting in cattle
- no. cattle in USA doubled between 1880 and 1900
- More cattle...
- more disputes with P Indians and homesteaders
- Plains had more animals grazing there
- pressure put on buffalo populations
- LINK- affect on Indian life
- pressure put on buffalo populations
- 1886-87 Winter
- lots cattle got frostbite, mllions died
- 15% of cattle died
- end of open range ranches
- lots cattle got frostbite, mllions died
- Excess supply
- GROWTH
- Railroad
- by 1970 these connected 100s towns in US
- beef could be sold to NY/ Chicago for 8-10x price it took to rear the cows
- problem = transport
- Joseph McCoy
- Abilene Cow town,Kansas
- attracted cowboys and cattle due to loose quarantine laws
- hub for trading Texan longhorn cattle
- Abilene Cow town,Kansas
- Goodnight & Loving
- realised cattle in Fort Sumner = $15 rather than $5
- they extended their trade route
- Texas> Fort Sumner> Denver > Cheyenne
- John Iliff
- started a huge ranch in Colorado and sold beef to Sioux
- his success encouragred others (became millionare etc.
- 'Cattle King of the Plains'
- started a huge ranch in Colorado and sold beef to Sioux
- Railroad
- COWBOYS
- Ranches
- rounding up cattle, branding, repairing fences
- full time job all year but less jobs
- slept in bunkhouses had cookhouses
- lost of rules i.e. no gun, drinking
- fewer dangers but still some i.e. rustlers and Indians
- Ranches
- HOMESTEAD-ERS & RANCHERS
- Ranchers
- USA law allowed Americans to graze cattle wherever they wanted
- few very rich 'Cattle Barons'
- Ranchers required lots of land so there was enough land and grass for their cattle
- Home- steaders
- claimed sections of land for $18 fee
- ranchers cattle grazed on their land and not much timber for fencing
- led to lots of conflict and even i.e. Johnson County war
- Ranchers
- UP TO 1895
- so ranchers allowed their cattle to roam over the great plains
- kept in check with cowboys
- USA law allowed Americans to graze cattle wherever they wanted
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