May 17, 2018 · Cattle Industry BIBLIOGRAPHY The cattle industry is one of the world ’ s most important agricultural enterprises. According to the United Nations, there were over 1.37 billion …

May 29, 2018 · CATTLE DRIVES CATTLE DRIVES. Contrary to popular conception, long-distance cattle driving was traditional not only in Texas but elsewhere in North America long …

HOMESTEADERS AND THE CATTLE INDUSTRY HOMESTEADERS AND THE CATTLE INDUSTRY. Beginning in the late 1860s, cattle grazing on the open range of the western …

May 11, 2018 · In 1867 he joined a firm that shipped as many as a thousand cattle a week. McCoy viewed the livestock industry from a national perspective and recognized the need for …

KING, RICHARD Richard King (1825 – 1885) became a legend of U.S. business when he created the largest cattle ranch in the United States during the 1850s. At its height the ranch extended …

OPEN RANGE The open range consisted of the unfenced public lands of the West. When the cattle industry boomed following the American Civil War (1861 – 1865), ranchers in Texas, …

The cattle industry The Spanish had introduced cattle ranching to North America in the eighteenth century. By the 1830s a large-scale cattle industry had developed in Texas. The Texans …

LONG DRIVE LONG DRIVE. At the close of the Civil War, large herds of longhorn cattle roamed freely throughout Texas. High meat prices in eastern cities attracted a variety of entrepreneurs …

May 11, 2018 · The cattle industry prospered in the years following the American Civil War (1861 – 65): demand for beef rose at the same time as large herds of cattle, the offspring of cows …

Once meat could be reliably shipped east, the Chicago slaughterhouse industry boomed, and such meat-packing companies as Swift and Armour made fortunes, both in the United States …