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Texans interbred cows so they could be more durable for the land and wheather conditions.
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A steer that could bring up to $4 in texas could be worth something around $40 in eastern marketing.
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Over the next ten years, the buffalo will be hunted so much that they will be an endangered species for the next century.
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Barbed Wire created by Joseph Glidden changed cattle herding by making it so that cowboys could not herd cattle through other peoples properties.
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Mexicans and Mexican-Americans where starting to become cowboys and along with African Americans they would make up most of the cowboys because the jobs where really dangerous.
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In Chicago a cattle could be worth as much as $35 per cow...
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3 years later in Chicago a cattle was worth about $8
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The first price crash occured as supply far exceeded damand.
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A drought made many herds die of Dehydration
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Tempatures reached 46 degrees below 0 thousands of frozen cattle where found all over the mid-west