Cattle Drives and Trails

Go to the saloon for a few drinks, then head on back home after all the cattle had been sold.

probably dodge city and cheyenne.

The men that move cattle from place to place are called ranchers or cowboys. They live on ranches.

A cattle trail boss is commonly referred to as a "trail boss." This individual is responsible for overseeing the cattle drive, managing the cowhands, and ensuring the safety and well-being of the cattle during the journey. The trail boss makes critical decisions regarding the route, pace, and rest stops, playing a vital role in the success of the drive.

It often involves movement of cattle from one location to another that takes at least a few hours to a number of days to get from point A to B.

In colonial times in New England, the "cowkeeper" was a person who was paid to supervise the movements of the cows to and from pasture. Since more cattle were being shipped in from the Old World, there wasn't enough room for all the cattle to graze in the "town pasture" or commons, so they were herded some distance from the commons to graze. Nowadays, the "cowkeeper" is called a rancher or cattleman, who has much larger tracts of land to have his/her cattle graze on than what the colonists had in the 15th and 16th century in America.

The growth of towns and farms took up most of the grazing land along the routes of the drives, and the expansion of the railroads meant cattle could be shipped directly to the slaughterhouse.

A painted cattle guard.

They could make 10 to 15 miles a day herding 1,000 head of cattle.

Back then, dust. Dry scrub. The Red River and the Arkansas River provided water (as did a number of small creeks and streams), but were difficult to cross. The topography of badlands, canyons and lower mountain ranges made the trip very difficult. Unfriendly Native Americans and rustlers made it extremely dangerous. A link to the Wikipedia article on the Chisholm Trail is provided.

read this: http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4489p21v/

People didn't start in California, but worked at getting there. It was about 2500 miles of flooded rivers, steep mountains, dry windy buggy empty prairies, and danger all the way. As many as 200 hundred wagons would go together as a group and the trip took 4-6 months.

The price of cattle was one factor that allowed cattle ranches to be so profitable during the boom period. Beef on the hoof was about $15 to $20 a head. Cattle were sought after to feed the thousands of immigrants that came to the United States looking for work and a better life.

too transport beef too the north

Its a whip on Word Ladder Precipitation Puzzle number 9

Because the storm would scare the cattle away

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Cattle and sheep are still raised in large numbers on the Great Plains.

13,476 miles per year is the overall average. But that does vary by age group from a low of 6,873 for 16 to 19 year old females to a high of 18,858 for 35-54 year old males.

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It was a trail used to move cattle from Texas, where Chisolm started, north to Kansas where they have either passed through to further north or sold to cattle buyers in that state.

It was the Chisholm Trail.

An occasional driver should only drive as many occasional miles as he might occasionally want to drive. The term Occasional driver is not indicative of how many miles they might drive but rather how often they may drive, there is no specific legal definition for an occasional driver. Most Insurers develop there own guidelines to determine if some fits the definition of an occasional driver. Generally an occasional driver would drive your vehicle no more than a few times a year. If they drive regularly once a week or regularly once a month, or once every 6 weeks, then they are a regular driver. By the very definition of the term, an occasional driver would not know how often they are going to drive. Any type of planned or scheduled use would define them as a regular driver.