End of the open range
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- Created on: 24-06-18 17:28
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- The end of the open range
- Causes
- 1870s: Massive increase in cattle ranching
- open range became overstocked
- (too many cattle eating the grass)
- Too much pressure on grass supplies, ran out
- soil damaged
- drought of 1883, overstocking made worse
- Beef was so plentiful in the East, shops had to lower prices to sell
- 1882: profits from cattle ranching decreased
- Ranchers kept cattle waiting for increase in prices
- 1882: profits from cattle ranching decreased
- open range became overstocked
- The Great Die Up 1886-87
- Harsh winter, -55 degrees
- Cattle weakened by overstocking
- 15% of cattle died
- Surviving stock, bad quality, cheap prices
- Many cattlemen went bankrupt
- Homesteaders moved in
- Resulted in increase of small cattle farms
- Easier to look after herd
- Easier to provide water to herd
- Reduced supply of beef, increasing prices
- 1870s: Massive increase in cattle ranching
- Cowboys
- less adventurous lives
- branding and dehorning cattle
- looking after horses
- harvesting hay
- lived in col bunkhouses
- had to follow strict rules
- less adventurous lives
- Causes
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