Land
The phrase Texas ranchers calf is the same thing as maverick
Open range ranches.
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.
No, they aren't.
Texas Ranchers sent their longhorns on cattle drives because the demand of the cattle in Texas was low. But high in the north and east. Demand and supply affect the price of nearly everything that was bought and sold - not just the cattle.
Texas ranchers grouped their cattle into herds and marched them across the countryside to get to the railroad to be shipped east or west. This was called a cattle drive and needed about 4 or more people on horseback to control where the cattle went.
So they could sell it to the city folk
So they could sell it to the city folk
Because there was a much larger population back East than there was out West.
Before the arrival of the railways, cattle had to be herded to market, often over a long distance.
Barbed wire fenced off open range, the range wars, harsh weather and disease, etc. etc. Hope this helped.
The question of slavery (banned in Mexico, but carried out by Texan ranchers).