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Moving the cattle from point "A" to point "B" for sale, and at the end, selling them all.
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at the end of the cattle drive, the cowboys rest and drink and fight
Go to the saloon for a few drinks, then head on back home after all the cattle had been sold.
first ones started in Texas and ended in Chicago
Log on to Rand Mcnally.com, enter a start point and an end point and it will give you drive times and directions.
Cattle trails disappeared mostly because of the sudden onslaught of people moving to the West, and a sudden drop in the value of cattle because of all the people coming to herd them, which caused the growth of plotting land and farming in the West.Read more: What_happened_to_the_cattle_trails_due_to_the_railroads
In order to determine the amount of hours in a trip, there must be a starting point and end point.
This is an old cowboy term used at the end of the cattle drive. It means pay off the riders and let them go celebrate.
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One reason for the end of the western cattle bonanza was--overgrazing of the plains. (NovaNet)