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How did Texas ranchers get their cattle to the railroads to be shiped east?
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They herded them using horses and the best herding practices they could use to move cattle with and keep them together.
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How did the railroad affect the cattle industry in Texas?
Before railroads were built in Texas, cattle had to be herded on cattle drives to the nearest railroad. The first railroads in the United States ran from east to west. After the railroads were built that ran north and south, the Texas cattle ranchers had less distance to cover to reach a railroad for transport.
How did the growth of the railroad help with cattle industry?
Before railroads were built in Texas, cattle had to be herded on cattle drives to the nearest railroad. The first railroads in the United States ran from east to west. After the railroads were built that ran north and south, the Texas cattle ranchers had less distance to cover to reach a railroad for transport.
After the Civil War why did Texas ranchers drive cattle herds to kansas?
After the Civil War Texas ranchers drove cattle in herds to Kansas because that is where the big stockyards were at the time. It was also a place for the Texas ranchers to use the railroad for shipping cattle elsewhere.
Why did Texas ranchers send their longhorn on cattle drive?
Texas Ranchers sent their longhorns on cattle drives because the demand of the cattle in Texas was low. But high in the north and east. Demand and supply affect the price of nearly everything that was bought and sold - not just the cattle.
What animals did cowboys drive from Texas to the railroads in kansas?
Cattle
Why Texas ranchers sent their longhorns on cattle drive?
The longhorns were the only cattle available in America to be used for beef and to send East for beef and for a bit of income.
How did new railroads help to create a cattle boom?
The railroads helped to create cattle kingdoms in the southwest because cattle could be shipped all over the country. Raising cattle in the southwest provided the ranchers with lots of land and grass to feed the cattle.
How did the growth of the railroad help the cattle industry?
Refrigerated railroad cars could take the processed meat to the East. Actually the railroads enabled ranchers to drive their cattle shorter distances to the trains that came to their most local cow-town. The railroads allowed cattle to be transported long distances, quickly and efficiently to distant markets. This meant that herding of cattle on foot over long distances, using much man power, would eventually be consigned to the western cowboy movies.
What became important to the development of the cattle industry in the Great Plains in the late 19th century?
The railroads significantly opened the cattle industry to sales and sales meant ranchers could expand their lands and herds. Ranchers from even Texas could drive herds north to meet the railroad, and both factors helped develop towns in the Great Plains.
What was the reason Texas cattle were brought to Kansas?
To get them to the railroads for shipment east.
Railroads were built into Texas so cattle could be rapidly shipped to the eastern markets?
Not really, railroads were built in all of the western states, not just Texas, so that yes, cattle could be shipped to the eastern markets.
In what year did cattle drives on the chisolm trail reach their peak?
The big major cattle drives ended around the early 1900s, when the railroads became more and more accessible for ranchers to herd their cattle to. Then came the engine-powered trucks that could be brought directly to the ranches to haul cattle away to the rail station. When that began, then that was officially when the cattle drives ended.
