Origins and Growth of the cattle industry
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- Origins and Growth of the Cattle Industry
- Origins
- Cattle first brought to America by European invaders
- 1836: Texas becomes part of US
- Texans carry on Mexican cattle industry
- Cowboys
- Herded cattle on long drives across South
- Cowboys
- Texans carry on Mexican cattle industry
- After the Civil War, Texans returned to cattle herds which had grown dramatically
- Demand was high in North but economy left little profits available in South
- Texas fever
- Nearly always fatal
- Highly contagious between cattle
- 1855: Vigilance groups in Missouri blocked cattle drives from Texas
- Quarantine law passed
- Texans looking for alternative route to drive cattle to big profits in East
- Quarantine law passed
- 1859: Quarantine law passed in Kansas
- Texans looking for alternative route to drive cattle to big profits in East
- Growth
- Joseph McCoy & Abilene
- Joseph McCoy: Livestock trader
- Bought 450 acres of land and built a holding pen for cattle
- Advertised safe journey from Texas to Abilene with riches available for cattle herders
- Over 3,000,000 cattle driven through Abilene in following years
- McCoy became very rich
- Abilene became first cow town
- Over 3,000,000 cattle driven through Abilene in following years
- Constructed a hotel
- Organised for Kansas Pacific Railroad to build depot
- 100 cars could be loaded
- Abilene
- Kansas relaxed quarantine rule in 1867
- Cattle could pass through West of state (Abilene)
- Grassland all the way from Texas
- Through Indian Territory
- 1867: Railroad reached Abilene
- Cattle could be loaded onto boxcars to Chicago
- Kansas relaxed quarantine rule in 1867
- Joseph McCoy: Livestock trader
- Goodnight-Loving Trail 1866
- Established by Charles Goodnight ad Oliver Loving
- Realised opportunity of selling cattle directly to population centres in the West
- 1866: Navajo Indians starving on reservation
- Goodnight, Loving and 18 cowboys drove 2,000 cattle here
- Sold 800 cattle for $12,000, 4x as much as possible in Texas
- Goodnight returned to Texas
- Continued to sell cattle to booming towns
- Ranch in Texas over 1,000,000 acres
- Continued to sell cattle to booming towns
- Loving drove and sold remaining 1,200 cattle to John Illif
- Injured in Comanche attack, died
- Goodnight returned to Texas
- Sold 800 cattle for $12,000, 4x as much as possible in Texas
- Goodnight, Loving and 18 cowboys drove 2,000 cattle here
- 1866-1880s: Used by other cattle drivers
- Wyoming grew it's own cattle industry
- Mining towns
- Reservations
- Established by Charles Goodnight ad Oliver Loving
- John Illif
- 1861: Bought an exhausted herd for $500
- 1866: Bought land for ranch in Denver
- Demand for meat was high, gold prospectors
- Built a herd of 26,000 cattle
- Sold beef
- Mining towns
- Government for Indian reservations
- 1872: Won contract to sell beef to reservation of 7,000 Sioux Indians
- Teams building Union Pacific Railroad
- Sold beef
- 1866: Bought land for ranch in Denver
- 1861: Bought an exhausted herd for $500
- Joseph McCoy & Abilene
- Origins
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