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Farmers, miners, cowboys, single women, Railroad workers, freemen, and ranchers
Farmers, miners, cowboys, single women, Railroad workers, freemen, and ranchers
Railroads could transport cattle from the west, so farmers did not feel the need to move west. Which affected Western migration.Railroads played a key role. Trains carried natural resources from the west to eastern markets. Trains also brought miners, farmers, and ranchers to develop the land.
People in deserts work at much the same occupations as people who do not live in deserts: doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, mechanics, carpenters, truck drivers, restaurant workers, mechanics, maids, ranchers, farmers, miners, etc.
Often the Chinese miners took over sites that Americans had abandoned because the easy-to-find gold was gone.
Farmers dug deep well to get water
limited water
Farmers, miners, cowboys, single women, Railroad workers, freemen, and ranchers
Farmers, miners, cowboys, single women, Railroad workers, freemen, and ranchers
Miners for gold ranchers farmers for land mormons for religous freedom
Railroads could transport cattle from the west, so farmers did not feel the need to move west. Which affected Western migration.Railroads played a key role. Trains carried natural resources from the west to eastern markets. Trains also brought miners, farmers, and ranchers to develop the land.
Farmers need to enclose the land (to protect their planted crops) - they used barbed wire for this. Ranchers needed unimpeded open plains to drive their cattle across (the cattle got entangled in the wire).
southwest ranchers
People in deserts work at much the same occupations as people who do not live in the desert - doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, farmers, miners, ranchers, truck drivers, mechanics, carpenters, etc.
On the great plains, the homes of settlers were called homesteads. These types of people were farmers, cowboys, miners and railroad workers. Also ranchers and single workers settled here.
Because Chinese miners often took over sites that Americans miners had abandoned.
southwest ranchers