What is true about cowboys who traveled along the chisholm trail?
b. They traveled along the trail in search of trading opportunities.
What was the transcontinental railroad what affect did it have on the American west?
Omg people answer the freaking question
Why did cattle rancher want to get the cattle to the northern and eastern states?
Access to markets. Cattle are grown in open rangeland, but there's nobody there who will pay a high price for them. Buyers are in big cities like New York or Chicago.
The fundamental rule of markets is to buy things where they are cheap, and then take them to places where they are expensive and sell them there. The development of the railroads gave people the ability to do just that.
Why didnt the Mormons take the Oregon Trail?
The trail followed by Mormon pioneers mostly paralleled the Oregon Trail, at times merged with it, and at a few points diverged completely from it. The reason for following the general course of the Oregon trail was primarily because it had been mapped out by traders and trappers several years prior to their own exodus from Nauvoo, Ill. However, because of the adversarial relationship between the Mormons and many immigrants from both Illinois and Missouri (where an "extermination order" was still in effect at that time), the Mormon immigrants opted to follow a course that also followed the Platte river, but on the opposite side from most Oregon-bound parties.
What did pioneers need to prepare for when traveling to the west in the 1800's?
Well here is some... Pots and pans,Fire wood,canteens,weapons,fabric,Their religious views,tools,Animals to live off of,Furniture. And They would need to bring animals to farm off of like chickens,cows And horses to pull the wagons! For Clothes they would need Different things for men and women like for women they need:Leggings,hats,coats,shirts. And for men they would need: Pants hats shirts coats shoes/Boots And clothing for their animals too like blankets for the horses in the winter,Hoove wraps. I hope this helps you in what ever you were looking for!
What were factors that led to the ending of the open range?
The introduction of barbed wire about 1870, one form by Michael Kelly and improved by Joseph Glidden allowed fence construction where there was not an abundance of other fencing materials is one major reason for the end of the "open range" as property owners had the ability to "fence out" other livestock and not allow open access to their property including fodder and water.
The herding of cattle from Texas to railroad centers to the north was given the name?
The herding of cattle from Texas to railroad centers to the north was called a cattle drive. Cattle drives took many months to complete. Some of the cowboys would drive the cattle to Kansas and not want to go back to the ranch after being paid. Then ranchers would have to hire more hands the next cattle drive season.
How did the pioneers die on the trip to the west?
Many people died from bugs, accidents, and types of diseases. Some people probably died from walking, starvation, and dehydration. Babies died from starving to death and some people drowned from swimming across rivers and streams and other deep bodies of water.
They made the stones by hand that say R.I.P.
How did the cowboy culture reflect the ethnic diversity of the United States?
Because cowboys ranked low on the social scale of the time and because they often lived and worked in remote areas there are no precise figures on how many were of any particular ethnic group or even how many there were over all.
What we usually consider today to be the "cowboy culture" began at the end of the Civil War when Texans began to drive herds north to the rail roads. There had been horse mounted cattle herders before of course all across the South West from Texas to California. Before "White" settlers arrived and the area became part of the US, the cowboys were primarily Mexican, and called vaqueros. The later cowboy culture, tools, and techniques were based on the vaquero culture.
It is estimated that the cowboys who drove the earlier herds north were about 50% white, and 25% Black and Hispanic each. Those figures held pretty constant in Texas, with Blacks perhaps rising to 30% of the total. As ranching spread the percentages depended on the part of the country they were in. Hispanic numbers were higher in the South West and West of the Rockies but lower in the Northern Great Plains. Black numbers were higher in Texas but very low in the North West. The number of blacks decreased the farther north from Texas. These percentages pretty much reflect the general population for time and place. In fact even today the Northern most states from Idaho thru Wyoming and Montana to the Dakotas rank in the bottom six for Black population.
In some areas, the South West and Northern Plains and Mountains, there were small but appreciable numbers of American Indians working as cowboys.
By the end of the "cowboy era" in the 1890's one estimate is that over all, up to a third of cowboys were black, 1/5 to 1/4 were Hispanic, and the rest "Whites" of various national descent.
They still do, there are many cowboys still working in many countries.
How many died in the donner party?
There were 87 people not including the teamsters or Indians that travelled with them.
The corporate cattle boom collapsed because?
corporations overstocked ranges which caused the depletion of natural resources, as well as the invention of barbed wire that allowed large ranchers to fence off public land took away the availability to free graze. These ecological and financial disasters destroyed the small farmer and confined larger farms to restricting their herd size as well as making sure that the herd was properly fortified for harsh winter months, by ensuring adequate feed by growing hay, as well as finding other ways to reduce their dependence of natural resources by growing drought resistant grasses and by drilling wells for water.
The Dane
How many Indians were killed in the old west?
Not many, when you compare that number to the number of Native- Americans killed.
Why did ranchers decide to drive their cattle from Texas to towns along the railroad?
Cowboys take cattle to the rail road station (actually the proper term is "stockyards") to be shipped to the facilities that slaughter them for our food.
That's what happened in the past, over 100 years ago. In today's world, trains are not used to ship cattle to slaughter plants. Ninety-nine percent of all cattle are shipped by cattle liners or trailers from a handling facility on a ranch all the way to the slaughter plant. Cattle can still be gathered off of the range, pasture or from the corrals to be loaded on to the trucks just like with loading cattle on the stock cars, but these trucks come to the ranch or farm to pick them up. Cowboys and ranchers don't drive them to another distant facility off their land, not especially with all the highways and suburban areas and other farms they have to travel through.
What impact did the railroads have on cattle?
The transcontinental railroad allowed cattle to be delivered across the country on the railroad, instead of herded by cowboys. This led to an increase in cattle distribution and the weakening of the cowboy cattle drives. It also helped to lower transportation costs.
the cow towns deveoped near rairoad lines so they could be loaded on the next rairoad car to be shipped in the East!
Why would someone go to the west?
In the old days they gave free land. So the people who were poor went to the west to farm.
How was the cattle kingdom significant?
The Cattle Kingdom
The cattle industry grew tremendously in the two decades after the Civil War, moving into western Kansas and Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas in the 1870s and 1880s with the expansion of the railroads. While motion pictures, television, and novels have helped make cowboys -the men who rounded up, branded, and drove the cattle to market - the most heroic and best known symbols of the West, cattle ranching was in fact a big business that attracted foreign investment and required considerable organization.
The long drive. The rise of the cattle kingdom coincided with the spread of the railroads across the country. In 1866, Texas ranchers drove their herds of longhorn cattle north to the railhead at Sedalia, Missouri, for shipment to the slaughter and packinghouses in the East. As the railroads moved west, the terminus of the long drive moved with them. The famed Chisholm Trail went from San Antonio to Abilene, Kansas, while the Western Trail ended in Dodge City. These drives covered approximately 800 miles and took about two months; the Goodknight-Loving Trail, which swung through west Texas and then north into New Mexico and Colorado, was considerably longer.
The cattle business was a profitable one. A steer purchased for less than ten dollars in south Texas might sell for three or more times that amount in the Kansas cow towns. Since the herds grazed on the open range and as few as a dozen cowboys could handle several thousand heads of cattle, a rancher's operating expenses were low. Given this positive outlook, it is not surprising that the cattle industry attracted capital from investors both in the East and overseas. Many ranchers simply managed cattle and land for outside corporate interests. Two of the largest corporate ranches - the Anglo-American Cattle Company (1879) and the Prairie Cattle Company (1881) - were established in England and Scotland, respectively.
Few cowboys made driving cattle their life's work, and after a year or two, most moved on to some other occupation. Although there were certainly cowhands who hoped to save enough money to start a ranch of their own, this was not easy. The cowboys were basically wageworkers, paid a meager $25 to $40 per month plus room and board. Ranch hands in the Texas Panhandle and in Wyoming even went on strike demanding higher salaries in the 1880s. Although whites were invariably hired as foremen in the ranch-hand hierarchy, nearly 20 percent of the cowboys were African and Mexican Americans. Indeed, the techniques for handling cattle on the range and the clothes the cowboys wore owed much to their early Mexican counterparts, the vaqueros.
Range wars. As settlers advanced into cattle country, a conflict was inevitable between the farmers who fenced their land with barbed wire and sought to control water sources and the ranchers whose livelihood depended on keeping the range open. But the so-called range wars also pitted cattlemen against sheepherders (sheep were notorious for eating grasses down to the stubble so that the land was unsuited for cattle grazing) and cattle barons against smaller ranchers. In what was known as the Johnson County War (1892), the Wyoming Stock Growers Association hired gunmen to get rid of small operators accused of stealing cattle.
The collapse of the cattle kingdom. A combination of factors brought an end to the cattle kingdom in the 1880s. The profitability of the industry encouraged ranchers to increase the size of their herds, which led to both overgrazing (the range could not support the number of cattle) and overproduction. As with crop production, more beef on the market and the rise of foreign competition led to declining prices. In addition to the loss of grazing land, nature took its toll. Successive harsh winters in 1886 and 1887, coupled with summer droughts, decimated the cattle herds on the Great Plains and forced ranchers to adopt new techniques. With some notable exceptions, such as the fabled King Ranch in south Texas, the trend shifted toward smaller ranches. Cattlemen fenced in more manageable herds averaging 200 head, feeding them hay or grain in the winter and turning to selective breeding to increase the amount of beef produced.
What factors caused the rise and fall of the cattle industry?
The railroad and the development of railroad cars that were refrigerated led to the rise of the western cattle industry. The land was perfect for cattle and the railroad allowed ranchers to send meat all over the country.
How far did the Donner Party travel?
Three families, George Donner's, Jacob Donner's, and James Reed's, left Springfield, Illinois, on April 14, 1846. On May 19 they joined a large wagon train in Kansas. This train was led by William Russell. It broke up into smaller parties. The Donner Party didn't actually exist until July 19, 1846, when a new wagon train was organized and George Donner was elected the captain. This happened near South Pass in Wyoming.
After the first rush to the western gold mining towns who took over mining operations?
Large mining companies
Was John C Fremont apart of the Donner party?
No. He urged the Donner Party to take a shortcut which caused the party unnecessary hardship. If the Donner Party had not taken the shortcut, they would have made it to Sacramento before snow came to the Sierra Nevada mountains.