Texas Ranching History

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

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

The main Indian tribes that lived in the Great Plains and Mountain Basin region were the Tigua, Comanche, Apache, Kiowa, and Jumano.

In this paper I will highlight one of the governors of Texas. Dolph Briscoe was the governor of Texas from 1973 to 1979. Not only was he a governor, he was also one of the largest individual land owners in Texas history. This in a state known for huge ranches. His philanthropy has provided support to a wide range of educational, medical, scientific, and cultural institutions. In this paper I hope to provide a little insight in to how much this man has impacted the evolution of Texas.

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

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?

This has led to the bizarre duality in Wyoming where the ranching industry is so venerated that it is a massively over-subsidized industry, while the state rejects assistance to other more promising business interests on the grounds that it is counter to Wyoming's value of rugged

Ranch-style homes are inexpensive to build and easy to expand. Although post WWII ranch houses were usually small, the combined dining and living spaces, and the large glass windows and sliding doors, gave these homes an open, spacious look. Family and recreational activities - children's games, barbecues, cocktail parties - centered on the outdoor patio area. Since ranch houses are suited to an indoor / outdoor lifestyle, they are better adapted to regions with mild climates rather than to areas where keeping the house warm in winter is an important economic factor. As the basic design moved east and north, the profile of the typical ranch house tightened into a "massed ranch" look; the stucco or clapboard siding was often replaced with

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

Sitton and Utley’s book is a compilation of interviews from small landowners in Texas, whose existence was a combination of subsistence farming and production of

Revolutionized the cattle business and sounded the death of knell for the open range. Mexicans and Americans without land but had cattle were put out of business, because without fencing they had to sell out for the best price they could get. |

Though the Texas' economy has diversified in recent decades, the state's abundant oil and gas resources remain a valuable asset - especially when prices for those commodities are high - that most other states lack. Even if it were possible for other states to replicate these features, the fact that so many Texans have failed to benefit from them - with poverty, low-wage jobs and lack of health insurance all above the national average - makes Texas a less-than-desirable model to

Having lived in Hawaii my entire life I have been surrounded and involved with farming, hunting, and ranching. I was subjected to the life of the Paniolo(Hawaiian cowboys) at a very young age, two of my neighbors and good family friends were involved with Parker ranch, a 250,000 acre ranch in the mountainous town of Waimea. Parker ranch deals with a generous supply of livestock; primarily cattle accompanied with smaller herds of sheep and horses. I’ve been able to ride around the ranch and observe the Paniolo herd cattle and perform simple daily tasks like refilling troughs and cycling horses for grazing. Simply reading about Cordasco’s lifestyle and duties made me very reminiscent of the many days I spent on the ranch, one very fond memory of mine was riding on the back of an atv while my uncle drove to find a herd of cattle and perform a head count.

Although the cowboys working in range, or as ranch hands or traveling, they often carried guns and rifles, and had then with them during the drives, but while working the drive they put their guns in the wagons. The main reason that cowboys took guns on the drives were because in case they ran into indians or something. On almost every cattle drive every has at least ran into some indians before. Most the time the cowboys try to avoid the indians and try to find ways

Cattle ranchers have been in the Amazon rainforest for about 55 years now. In the 1880’s, Cattle ranching began down in Texas. The cattles were roaming freely till the Texas cowboys found it easy to herd cattles and sell them in the market. There