The Cattle Boom

  • Jan 1, 1500

    spaniards enter the west

    spaniads moved to the west importing cattle along with themselves
  • The Texas Longhorn cattle was breed

    english cattle were breed with the spanish cattle in order to make the Texas Longhorn cattle
  • long drive

    George Duffield headed a long drive and described his journey
  • steers

    a steer that could bring about $4 in texas could sell for about $40 in eastern states
  • barbed wire becomes popular

  • more cowboys

    most mexican and maxican american cowbows worked on reanches in Texas
  • Chicago

    cattle brought a $35 head in Chicago
  • price crash

    prices crashed as demands for supplies rised
  • a severe winter storm hits

  • drought

  • Period: to

    more cold

    the storm was 46 degrees below zero in some areas. killing off up to ninety percent of farmers cattle from freezing to death or starving to death.

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