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6 Cards in this Set
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cattle drives
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herds of longhorn cattle were moved hundreds of miles from Texas to the railroad lines in Kansas and Missouri
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vaqueros
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skilled Spanish and Mexican horse riders who herded cattle on ranches. American cowhands learned a lot from them.
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cow town
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towns where cattle drives ended. Cattle were held in large pens until they could be loaded into railroad cars and shipped to the East.
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Chisholm Trail
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a cattle trail which Jesse Chisholm started. Over one million cattle walked this road in five years.
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Cattle Kingdom
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Wild cattle (longhorns) were herded and sent to the growing cities in the East to be marketed for food, which made the people who were herding the cattle a lot of money
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How did the cattle kindgom begin?`
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Spanish and Mexicans started to set up cattle ranches in the Southwest. More and more people wanted beef, so the market grew
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