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The whole point of the cattle drive is to get large numbers of cattle to the nearest railroad town. To keep profits up it was important to keep casualties to a minimum, meaning getting every individual bovine to the destination, at a decent body weight and healthy.

Although cattle are herd animals there are always some that may want to stray. All efforts were made to round up any stragglers. Crossing rivers could be dangerous and sometimes a cow or two could drown.

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