The Cattle Boom

By AbbyMarie

  • The cowboys

    Most mexican rancher cowboys worked on a ranch in texas.

  • Ranchers and Farmers with barbed wire

    They had erected miles of barbed wire.

  • Texas LongHorns

    Texas had interbread english cattle with spanish cattle t produce a new breed.

  • President Joseph

    Joseph Glidden patened barbed wire, a fencing wire.

  • Increased prices

    Prices went up due to prices

  • End of Cattle boom

    Prices crashed as a supply far exceeded demand

  • Winters

    A bad winter hit the Southern Plains

  • Droughts

    Bad drought had occured

  • tempretures

    tempretures reached -46 degrees in the southern plains

  • Basques

    10,000 basques were living in the west