Summary : ' Longhorn Cattle '

Mexican ranchers known as Tejanos fought to keep their land after the Mexican American War. Some examples of Mexicans farmers in the towns of Camargo and Reynosa owned about thirty-six thousand head of cattle, horses and sheep. Trade between those towns along the Nueces River and the countryside was very successful. Across the towns of Brownsville, McAllen and Edinburg after Texas became a state, Anglo merchants marry prominent Mexican land-grant families to gain control of acres of land. Subsequently, to make a contribution to the trade between

The Spanish were the foundation of today?s cattle industry. It was this foundation and influences that has made the cattle industry a billion dollar industry in

Describe the origins, purposes, and practices of the "long drive" and the "open range" cattle industry. What ended this brief but colorful boom? What was the long-run nature of the cattle business?

Cattle had to pull people and all of there stuff to different places to be able to get there in a faster time. The cattle were all trained to be able to move for many miles with out stopping for rest or for drinks. The trails were made smooth so they did not get hurt while out walking through the country. Cattle back then was so cheap because they used them for work but now days they are so expensive so that they can wonder through the fields and eat up all the grass. People back then also didn't kill the cows because they needed them for work but now days people will shoot a cow for there meet in no time. People who were apart of the cattle drive had between 2000-3000 head of cattle with approximately ten cowboys, a chuck wagon cook, and horse wrangler.  They would leave Texas in the spring and arrive at the railhead about two months later.  Averaging 8-10 miles a day allowed for grazing along the way which could mean an average gain of 80-100 pounds per head by the time the longhorns reached Abilene. When people are traveling with cattle it takes up more time because they don't get in a hurry, they just graze around and if they end up seeing some good green grass that they like they will stop and eat it, cattle are

The cow towns were practically made by the cowboys and the need for beef. They were called boom towns. Boom towns were towns with a few houses, and a general store. With cowboys coming through, the towns boomed, with give or take 27 saloons, 8 gambling halls, and a boot hill were normally added. The towns closest to Texas had bigger, and better attractions. They were the main stops for the cattle, for selling, and then moved down the state's. Over time people realized that the cattle weren't always the reason for the stops, sometimes the women were.

Drovers, people who herd large groups of cattle, heading up the Chisholm Trail toward the railroads the final stop for any last-minute supplies was Fort Worth, Texas. Beyond that you’d cross the Red River and into Indian Territory. During the years of 1866 and 1890, drovers herded over four million head of cattle through Fort Worth. The city soon became known as “Cowtown.” As the railroad arrived in 1876, Fort Worth developed into a shipping port for livestock, so the city built up the Union Stockyards. Despite the Union Stockyards lacking the essential funding to buy enough cattle to attract local ranchers, President Mike C. Hurley welcomed wealth Boston capitalist Greenleif Simpson into Fort Worth hoping he would find interest and invest

Texas longhorns have far more to offer us than their hides and horns and as beef cattle. Subjected to the cruelest demands nature imposed and the most careless overuse that man imposed, Texas Longhorns prevailed. As this cattle breed continues to find its way in a competitive industry, its contributions will be remembered and its will to survive revered. A HARD WON INDEPENDENT STREAK TYPIFIES THE AMERICAN

Cattle has a reliable significance by being the personification of the Native American people. Although white ranchers rejected the animals, Josiah has his faith and intuition that his cattle would be unique, not the ordinary which have lost touch with their lands. He demonstrates the animals as “any living thing” (Silko, 74), which illustrates that the cattle would lose their origins if they “separate from the land for too long” (Silko, 74). Silko highlights the dissimilarity of treatment of animals by the whites from the Laguna method of hunting animals since the Laguna people expresses their respects and appreciations for the prey through rituals and ceremonies. When the Herefords owned by the white ranchers are about to fall to death because of thirst, the spotted cattle can find water on their own. In other words, they are self-sufficient and close to the lands

here in texas take pride in our cattle, so naturally we have to be able to back it up. Cattle

This new speckled breed also shows relation to the Lagunas. The cattle are weak and seemingly useless. But in all actuality they are very durable and can live on less than domesticated cattle can. Reck points out that "they are survivors" and refuse to be caged by man, much like the Lagunas in how [some of them] try to fight off the white man's ways. Reck sums it up, "Like the cattle, the Native Americans wish to be liberated from the white man, always in search of a way to evade his grip. The cattle are reminiscent of the previous generations of Indians before the infiltration of the white man--strong, durable, close to the land, free from fences and restrictions." In other words, it is very easy to get sucked into all that white society seemingly has to offer. If you do, you can no longer "roam freely."

The cattle industry started to rise after the American civil war. This was due to the increase of cows in Texas as cows weren’t fenced in. A man called Joseph McCoy soon came up with the idea of the cow town of Abilene, where Northern buyers could meet up with Southern sellers where they were on equal footing and couldn’t be attacked by Indians. Abilene was built on the Kansas Pacific Railroad. This made it easier to transport cattle bought to the cities in the East like Chicago. By 1870 300,000 cattle were being bought and sold in Abilene. Cows that were sold in Texas for $5 could be sold for $40 in a cow town. This helped the cattle industry rise as it meant more people would sell their cows and gain profit. This then developed even further as the railroad was moved westward which developed other cow towns such as Dodge city and Kansas because it meant there was more places where you could gain more profit for selling your cows.

The cattle kingdom out west had hit its peak in the 1880 's. A steer could be purchased in Texas for eight dollars. They could be sold in the east for up to sixty dollars. In the 1880 's the open range is coming to an end. The farmers are fed up with the cattle tromping through his crops. The sheepherders also took away from the cattle kingdom. The sheep killed the grass when they ate it, unlike cows. The farmer and cowboy hated each other, and they were

When it comes to feeding show cattle many raisers have certain feeding strategies that they follow, ensuring they can maintain their goal on winning. Along with feeding it takes exercise so that one’s show calf will not become stout nor stubborn. Certain aspects are necessary to show an animal

The Comanches, exceptional horsemen who dominated the Southern Plains, played a prominent role in Texas frontier history throughout much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Anthropological evidence indicates that they were originally a mountain tribe, a branch of the Northern Shoshones, who roamed the Great Basin region of the western United States as crudely equipped hunters and gatherers. Both cultural and linguistic similarities confirm the Comanches' Shoshone origins. The Comanche language is derived from the Uto-Aztecan linguistic family and is virtually identical to the language of the Northern Shoshones. Sometime during the late seventeenth century, the Comanches acquired horses, and that acquisition

Have you ever wondered who the cowboys were; how they lived; or what they did? The American Cowboy's way of life was interesting and unique, and they contributed more to society than one might think. Besides looking after stock and driving cattle, they had to round up huge numbers of cattle for ranchers. This paper will examine the American cowboy's character, what they wore, the everyday things they did like driving cattle and branding calves and the lawlessness of the old west.