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It increased the cattle stocks.
Barbed-wire. When farmers started putting up barbed-wire fences, cattle drives couldn't get to the feilds forthe cows to graze.
The development of the railroad made it profitable to raise cattle on the Great Plains. In 1860, some five-million longhorn cattle grazed in the Lone Star state. Cattle that could be bought for $3 to $5 a head in Texas could be sold for $30 to $50 at railroad shipping points in Abilene or Dodge City in Kansas.
there were few established churches on the frontier
difference between external and internal frontier
the 5 western frontiers are the indian frontier the farming frontier the cattle frontier the mining frontier and the buffalo frontier
The decline of the cattle frontier might have been prevented if there had been better land management. It might have also been prevented if they had bred less cattle.
Frontier - 1955 Cattle Drive to Casper 1-9 was released on: USA: 27 November 1955
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It increased the cattle stocks.
they brought cattle to Texas
One factor that lead to the expansion of the Texas frontier was the need for land to raise beef cattle.
Barbed-wire. When farmers started putting up barbed-wire fences, cattle drives couldn't get to the feilds forthe cows to graze.
farmers and ranchers took advantage of the land and put up barbed wire fences to limit were their cattle could graze which ended the open frontier
Following the Civil War, approximately 5 million longhorn cattle ranged freely across South Texas. This south Texas area later became known as the Texas frontier.
Barbed wire because it helped farmers/rangers keep their cattle from being stolen
David Lawson Shirk has written: 'The cattle drives of David Shirk from Texas to the Idaho mines, 1871 and 1873' -- subject- s -: Cattle trade, Frontier and pioneer life