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Over the next decade, the upheaval of the Texas Revolution and Mexican-American War left large quantities of land and cattle abandoned by Mexican ranchers. American settlers began to spread into arid northern and western Texas, and the longhorn went with them. Through the ‘40s and ‘50s, the Texas ranching economy took off.
of War Information Black-and-White Negatives. Between 1930 and 1940, the southwestern Great Plains region of the United States suffered a severe drought. Once a semi-arid grassland, the treeless plains became home to thousands of settlers when, in 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act. Most of the settlers farmed their land or grazed cattle.
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8 de sept. de 2021 · The truth is that the cattle drive boom began after the Civil War in 1865. Prior to that, people had been driving cattle out of Texas for quite a while. Some sources have determined the “first cattle drive” may date to 1690, at a time when current-day Texas was still controlled by Spain.
These ranchers and businessmen began the rampant speculation in the cattle industry that made, and lost, many fortunes. So began the impressive cattle drives of the 1860s and 1870s. The famous Chisholm Trail provided a quick path from Texas to railroad terminals in Abilene, Wichita, and Dodge City, Kansas, where cowboys would receive their pay.
Ed - December 12, 2016. Charles Goodnight was a legend in the old west. He was the man who helped to develop the cattle industry in Texas and he also pioneered several important cattle trails. He was born in 1836 in the State of Illinois and he moved to Texas when he was still a boy. He loved the frontier life and soon he became a skilled ...
8 de may. de 2019 · I've become interested in learning about what ranching looked like in Texas during the Civil War. Ranching in Texas before the years of the great cattle drives in the late 1860s-early 1880s seems to be a bit of an unknown. I was wondering a few things: - Did ranchers have use for slaves, at...
