Cattle Industry
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- Created on: 06-06-15 14:36
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- Cattle Industry
- Abilene
- Founded by Joseph McCoy in 1867
- Banned Cowboys
- First Cow Town
- Kansas
- Lack of Law & Order
- Gambling & prostitution a problem
- Cowboys
- Myths
- They were all white
- Had shoots off & were good at guns
- Hated Indians
- Heroic and exciting lives
- They all rode horses
- Why Myths?
- Wild West Shows
- Hollywood movies
- Dime Novels
- Charles Russel
- Myths
- They were all white
- Had shoots off & were good at guns
- Hated Indians
- Heroic and exciting lives
- They all rode horses
- Myths
- Cattle Drivers
- Moved cows over homesteaders' land
- No trains
- Goodnight & Loving 1866
- 1860 = 180 cattle 1865 = 5,000 cattle
- Sold meat to Indians & U.S. Army
- Moved cows over homesteaders' land
- Unfenced Ranching
- Why?
- Large open spaces
- No Indians & Buffalo
- Texas Longhorn could survive the winter
- The creation of the Railroad 1869
- Problems
- Rustling
- Solutions
- Branding cows
- Rustling
- Branding cows
- Why?
- Texas
- Due to the Civil War, 5,000,000 Texas Longhorn Cattle appeared
- Tough enough to withstand the harsh weather
- Railways
- Lots of open spaces
- Due to the Civil War, 5,000,000 Texas Longhorn Cattle appeared
- Open Range
- Unfenced Ranching
- Why?
- Large open spaces
- No Indians & Buffalo
- Texas Longhorn could survive the winter
- The creation of the Railroad 1869
- Problems
- Solutions
- Branding cows
- Branding cows
- Solutions
- Why?
- helped Unfenced Ranching
- The End
- 1883-86 severe draughts
- 1886-7 Worst Winter on record
- 70-80% of cattle killed
- Viewed as end of the Open Range
- Johnson County War
- Demand in East fell
- Over grazing
- Invention of the Barbed wire
- Unfenced Ranching
- Factors that developed the Cattle Industry
- Railroad 1869
- Allowed cattle to be transported to the East
- Refrigerated carts
- Allowed cattle to be transported to the East
- Army
- Needed meat to feed soldiers
- Network of forts
- Demand for beef
- People in the East wanted beef
- Cheap meat
- People in the East wanted beef
- Indians
- Buffalo killed off; had to have cattle
- Indians were on Reservations
- Individuals
- Joseph McCoy (above)
- Goodnight & Loving (above)
- John Illif
- Bought Lame cattle (35,000)
- Government contracts
- Sold them to Railroad workers
- Railroad 1869
- Abilene
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