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The Chisholm Trail was important because it is how cattle were driven from Texas to Kansas before the railroad expanded. It was the main route ranchers used and it allowed them to get beef to the Northeast and the sale of cattle helped Texas get out of the poverty left over from the Civil War.
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.
Angus cattle were brought to Victoria, Kansas in the United States from Scotland by George Grant in 1873.
Before the arrival of the railways, cattle were driven to market, known as a cattle drive. When the railways arrived, the cattle were driven to the nearest railhead.
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No, fed cattle goes to nebraska, pastureland cattle and ran cattle goes to texas, and then it goes to kansas
The geographic center of the cattle feeding industry began to shift from the Midwest to the southern plains states in 1972. By the 1980s the biggest cattle feeders were located primarily in Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado.
Cattle drivers were not profitable.
the Chisholm trail
No. Texas ranks number one in the country for total cattle production followed by Kansas, Nebraska, California and Oklahoma.
Sidney, Ogallala and North Platte by 1868.
drivers that take cattle to different places
Nebraska's products are hogs, beef cattle, and dairy cattle. By: Bobo Liang
Kansas had railroads
None, since cattle herding is not an industry. Raising cattle, however, is. Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and Oklahoma are the top five states as far as raising beef cattle is concerned. California, Wisconsin, New York, Pennsylvania and Idaho are the top five states for the raising of dairy cattle and gross milk production.
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