Creating a Cattle Kingdom
The Life of a Cowhand
Cow Towns
Cattle Boom and the end of the Cattle Kingdom
100
Set up cattle ranches across the southwest before the arrival of settlers from the U.S.
Who are Spaniards and Mexicans
100
Employed by ranchers to tend their cattle and drive herds to the market
What is a cowhand
100
Cattle drives ended here
What is a cow town
100
Cattle ranches grew shorter and shorter because of...
Farmers moving in and fencing up their land
200
Strays from ranches that grew into large herds of wild cattle
What are longhornes
200
skilled riders who herded cattle on ranches in Mexico, California and the Southwest.
What is a Vanquero
200
Was valued by the townspeople
What is religion
200
Nibbled on grass so low that rancher's cattle could not eat it
What are sheep
300
Why did the demand for beef increase?
Miners, railroad crews, farmers, and growing cities and communities needed beef.
300
Made up a majority of cowhands that worked in Texas
Who were Confederate Civil War veterans
300
Every town had this?
A main street
300
When did ranching spread north of Texas and across grassy plains?
In the 1870's
400
Were perfect for commercial market
What are Texas longhorns
400
Cowhands were lucky to earn this much for all the hard work they did
$1
400
Cattle were held in pens until they could be loaded onto trains and shipped where
To the East
400
Would spread and sometimes destroy entire herds of cattle
What is disease
500
A very popular trail.
What is the Chisholm trail
500
The worst fear of a cowhand
What is a stampede
500
These small towns became thriving communities made of...
Settlers, doctors, merchants, barbers, artisans,bankers, and cowhands.
500
During the decline of the Cattle Kingdom land was given to farmers but it was also given to...
Railroad companies
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