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.
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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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