What state did cattle drives start in?

Texas they are know for cattle drives and cattle are found there

when somebody drives cattle across the state.

Cowboys and settlers were involved in cattle drives

to get cattle to the market.

The cattle industry originated in Ancient Egypt over 5000 years ago. Same with the cattle drives.

To get cattle from the southeast to other regions

That depends on how far the cow hands had to drive the cattle. Most cattle drives lasted anywhere from a week to several months.

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on cattle drives.

the market for cattle in texas was too small

waco Actually the Chisholm Trail cattle drives originated at the Red River in Indian Territory, what is now Oklahoma.

It drives cattle in to a field

Cattle drives were for taking cattle to the stock pens for shipping by rail. Trucks replaced the rail stock yards and now they just go from large ranches to sale. Yet, there are small cattle drives that still do take place in some areas.

Cattle Drives were important because the East wanted beef and the cowboys want money the cattle drived could take weeks to get to the Railroad station.

The cattle drives over the open range ended because of The Great Blizzard of 1888. The Cattle started slowly dying out.

An average of 14 to 18 miles per day were made on cattle drives.

Cattle drives originated from where cattle were first domesticated, which was in and around Egypt, Middle Eastern countries, and into Spain, well before cattle were first introduced into the New World in the late 1400's.

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.

Cattle Drive--- A journey in which cowboys herded cattle north to the railroad depots in the 1800's

Cowhands led cattle drives in the 1860's to move cattle from the southwest to the nearest rail station where the cattle could be carried north. Cattle were worth about 3 times in the north what they were in the south.

No, not at all. Barbed wire was the factor that prevented making cattle drives profitable because they impeded the movements of cattle and open-range grazing of cattle.

Demand for beef in eastern cities, but the railroads did not yet reach out to the areas of the Texas (and other western) ranches. Prior to the railroads the cattle drives would have been prohibitively long and impractical, early western railroads made cattle drives practical. After the railroads were extended and cattle could be loaded directly on the trains without having to take them on long drives, the cattle drives cease.

Cattle could be sold for more money in the East.

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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.

Just about every ethnicity was involved in cattle drives except Indian (and I'm not referring to Native Americans) and Middle East ethnicities. Many African-Americans were involved in cattle drives as much as Caucasians, Mexicans and Europeans were.