cattle drives
Cowboys moving livestock
Cattle drives were the mass movement of livestock over long distances, typically to railheads or markets.
The term evokes the American West of the mid-to-late 1800s, when cowboys drove herds hundreds of miles along routes like the Chisholm Trail: The cattle drive took three months to reach Kansas.
Railroads eventually made the practice obsolete.
- cowboysRanch hands tending herds
- chuck wagonMobile frontier cooking cart
- herdingManaging animal groups
- brandingCreating distinctive identity
- rancherOne who raises livestock
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- 1800s AmericaOregon Trail, Trail of Tears, transcontinental railroad, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
- cattle ranchingbranding iron, branding irons, herd, herds, ranchers
- Cowboycowboy, cowboys, cowgirls, ranch, rancher
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- ranchingranch, rancher, ranchers, ranching, cows
- TexasAlamo, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio
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Intensive livestock production system
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Rail vehicles transporting livestock
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