The Cattle Industry Ranchers Flashcards
What did goodnight and loving do?
First people to drive cattle out of Texas
What did Joseph McCoy do?
Created Abliene in Kansa 1867
What happened when ranchers returned from the civil war?
Found huge herds
What were the problems for cattlemen?
Long and tough journeys
Conflict with the homesteaders
Homesteaders blocked the route
What was the open range?
Unfenced land to graze cattle
Cattle roam freely
Land was not owned
Why was the open range successful?
Indians were confined to reservations
Buffaloes were gone
Railroad enabled easy access
Why did the open range end?
Winter 1886-87 killed thousands of cattle
Overcrowding
Cost of cattle increased
Price of beef fell
What did Cowboys do?
Drove cattle from Texas to cow towns Treated sick cattle Required fences Protected cattle from rustlers Loaded cattle into trucks
What were the causes of the Johnson county war?
Beef prices falling
Cattle rustling
Homesteaders and ranchers in Wyoming were on land cattle barons claimed was theirs
What happen at the first killing of the Johnson county war?
1889- Jim Averil and Ella Watson were lynched
Accused of cattle rustling
No one was prosecuted
What happen with the Johnson county war in 1892?
Baron invasion of Johnson county war
Governor supplied guns
Special train brought 50men
List of men to kill
What new markets created demand for beef?
Reservations
Railroad builders
Miners
What was the plan for the Johnson county war?
To cut off Johnson county by cutting wires
What did Nate champion do?
Held of the invaders giving time for the people of buffalo to prepare and become armed
Invaders had to rescued
Who created the refrigerated railcar?
Gustavus swift
