Giddy-up cowboys and and girls! In the southwest during early half of the 1800s, cows were only worth 2 or 3 dollars a piece.
They roamed wild, grazed off of the open range, and were abundant. Midway through the century though, railroads were built and the nation was connected. People could suddenly ship cows in freight trains to the Northeast , where the yankee had a growing taste between twenty and forty dollars each, if you could get them to the train town, but it was at lest as dangerous as it was profitable. Cowboys were threatened at every turn. They faced cattle rustlers stampedes and extreme weather but kept pushing those steers to the train station by the turn of the century barbed wire killed the open range and some may say the cowboy too but it was the train that birthed him
Giddy-up cowboys and and girls! In the southwest during early half of the 1800s, cows were only worth 2 or 3 dollars a piece.They roamed wild, grazed off of the open range, and were abundant. Midway through the century though, railroads were built and the nation was connected. People could suddenly ship cows in freight trains to the Northeast , where the yankee had a growing taste between twenty and forty dollars each, if you could get them to the train town, but it was at lest as dangerous as it was profitable. Cowboys were threatened at every turn. They faced cattle rustlers stampedes and extreme weather but kept pushing those steers to the train station by the turn of the century barbed wire killed the open range and some may say the cowboy too but it was the train that birthed him
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