They would try to mimic predators stalking cattle in such a way to make the animals move in the direction they wanted to go, especially upon studying the prey-predator interactions between buffalo and wild dogs or wolves. A lot of the herding aspect was trial-and-error, until both the herders and the cattle learned that certain methods could work without panicking the cattle and that the herders were not there to harm the cattle, respectively.
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They put up fences. Cattle used to roam freely on the Great Plains. Later, farmers put up barbed wire fences in order to share the land and divide it. The fences ended the cattle drives that were an essential part of the Cattle Kingdom.
There are many factors that helped the farmers on the great plains to overcome opposition from cattle ranchers. For instance they bought new and improved machinery which improved efficiency in their farming.
Barbed-wire. When farmers started putting up barbed-wire fences, cattle drives couldn't get to the feilds forthe cows to graze.
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