Cattle ranching began in		bunkhouses
American civil war ended		had to sleep out in all weathers
Sedalia		fights between cattlemen over the rights to rivers and water holes
Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving		there was aterrible winter
Joseph McCoy		by the 1870s
700,000 catle were being traded by		patroled the herd made sure they were safe
ranches started to be built on open land on		by 1880
John Iliff began to experiment		built the first 'cow town' at Abilene in 1867
Cattle on the open range had to		rounded up the cattle and took them on the long drive to the railway
Owners of of large herds were known as		cowboys were banned from Abolene
Indians had been pushed into reservations		a stampede
4 million cattle were kept on the northern plains		cattle barons
cowboys employed by the cattle barons lived in		1865
cattlemen became the first whites to build homes on		lower prices
the fall in the demand for beef in eastern cities resulted in		Texas in 1830s
cattle being kept on the Plains resulted in		was the first cattle trail
in the summers of 1883 and 1886		developed barbed wire in 1874
in the winter of 1886-87		1871
Joseph Glidden		there were droughts
the developement of wind pumps bought an end to		rounded up the cattle and branded the new calves
the life of a cowboy in 'wild west shows' 'dime novels' and hollywood films		the Great Plains which was closer to the railway
the reality of a cowboys life		overstocking
one reason men became cowboys was		opened a trail to take cattle to the army forts
in the winter months a cowboy		hard, often boring and sometime danerous
in the spring a cowboy		be branded to establish ownership
in the summer a cowboy		seemed glamorous
in 1872		there were few jobs and the pay could be good on a long drive
during the the drive cowboys		the cattle boom ended and the cowboys job changed
Sounds at night could spark		cross-breeding Longhorn catle with English breeds
in 1886-87		the high plains of Colorado,Nebraska Wyoming and Montana