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Texas Longhorn
Texans interbred cows so they could be more durable for the land and wheather conditions. -
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THE CATTLE BOOM
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Texas v Eastern Market
A steer that could bring up to $4 in texas could be worth something around $40 in eastern marketing. -
The Buffalo
Over the next ten years, the buffalo will be hunted so much that they will be an endangered species for the next century. -
Barbed Wire Changes Everything
Barbed Wire created by Joseph Glidden changed cattle herding by making it so that cowboys could not herd cattle through other peoples properties. -
The Mexican Cowboy
Mexicans and Mexican-Americans where starting to become cowboys and along with African Americans they would make up most of the cowboys because the jobs where really dangerous. -
Chicago Cattle
In Chicago a cattle could be worth as much as $35 per cow... -
Chicago Cattle 3 years later
3 years later in Chicago a cattle was worth about $8 -
Price Crash
The first price crash occured as supply far exceeded damand. -
The Drought
A drought made many herds die of Dehydration -
Tempature Drop
Tempatures reached 46 degrees below 0 thousands of frozen cattle where found all over the mid-west