cattle drive

Examples of cattle drive in the following topics:

• The End of the Open Range

  • The open range came to an end due to the overgrazing of cattle.
  • Its invention made fencing huge expanses cheaper than hiring cowboys for handling cattle.
  • This was particularly true during the harsh winter of 1886–1887, when hundreds of thousands of cattle died across the Northwest, leading to collapse of the cattle industry.
  • This made long cattle drives from Texas to the railheads in Kansas unnecessary.
  • Hence, the age of the open range was gone and large cattle drives were over.

• Ranchers, Cowboys, and Cattle

  • The use of livestock branding allowed the cattle owned by different ranchers to be identified and sorted.
  • In the north, overgrazing stressed the open range, leading to insufficient winter forage for the cattle and starvation.
  • This was particularly true during the harsh winter of 1886–1887, when hundreds of thousands of cattle died across the Northwest, leading to a collapse of the cattle industry.
  • This made long cattle drives from Texas to the railheads in Kansas unnecessary.
  • Hence, the age of the open range was gone, and large cattle drives were over.

• The Western Frontier

  • As the nation expanded westward, settlers were motivated by opportunities to farm the land or "make it rich" through cattle or gold.
  • This meat was highly sought after in eastern markets, and the demand created not only wealthy ranchers but an era of cowboys and cattle drives that in many ways defines how we think of the West today.
  • The lure of quick riches through mining or driving cattle meant that much of the West indeed consisted of rough men living a rough life, although the violence was exaggerated and even glorified in the dime-store novels of the day.

• Range Wars

  • The Pleasant Valley War was commonly thought to be an Arizona sheep war between two feuding families, the cattle-herding Grahams and the sheep-herding Tewksburys.
  • The Mason County War (1875–1876) was a cattle rustling dispute between German-American settlers and the non-German ranchers in Mason County, Texas.

• The Wilderness Road

  • Passage was often slow, as entire families usually walked hundreds of miles, using cattle to carry heavy loads, until they reached their new homesteads.
  • Horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs found a waiting market in the Carolinas, Maryland, and Virginia.

• Administrative Corruption

  • Fall used money from the bribes to improve his cattle ranch and business investments, and his attempts to cover the deals were successful in spite of the ongoing investigation by Senator Walsh.

• The Muckrakers

  • Such issues included the monopoly of Standard Oil, cattle processing and meat packing, patent medicines, child labor and wages, labor in general and working conditions in both agriculture and industry.

• Economic Growth

  • Farms were in disrepair, and the prewar stock of horses, mules and cattle was much depleted; two-fifths of the South's livestock had been killed.

• The Transformation of the West

  • The settlers became customers of the railroads, shipping their crops and cattle out, and bringing in manufactured products.

• Settling New England

  • On arrival they began farming, raising cattle, Indian corn and vegetables, and soon developed both a fur trade and cod fishing.