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long drive (first)

Page history last edited by Jacob Farmen 13 years, 2 months ago

The long drive was the solution to getting the cattle to the railroads to be distributed throughout America. Because much of the cattle in America was in south Texas and the railroads didnt yet reach this area, the solution was the "long drive" - from Texas to the railroads of Kansas. Cowboys gathered herds and drove them towards Kansas across the plains. Destinantions of the "long drive" were places such as Dodge City or Abilene, Kansas or Oglalla, Nebraska or Cheyenne, Wyoming. The long drive was short lived because of overgrazing, drought, and the invention of barbed wire.

 

Source: http://wikinotes.wikidot.com/chapter-26-12

 

 

Source: http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-hankvaughan.html

Comments (3)

RayHan said

at 9:07 pm on Jan 26, 2011

Many farmers objected cattled riding over their land because it would trample crops. For that reason, the built barbed wire fences to prevent access.
Ray Han p1

Lauren Niedzielski said

at 7:47 pm on Jan 27, 2011

It typically took six weeks to two months to drive the cattle across the plains, because an average number of cattle in long drives was twenty five hundred.
Lauren Niedzielski-period 1

Bert Zhang said

at 12:06 am on Feb 1, 2011

At certain stops they would count the cattle by guiding them from one fenced area to another via a bottlenecked portion.
Bert Zhang
Period 1

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