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9 Cards in this Set
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When did Texas rebe against the Mexican government?
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1836
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Where did the meat from the cattle driven on the long drives end up?
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Chicago
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Where did Goodnight and Loving drive their cattle?
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Colorado
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Who was the 'cattle king of the northern plains'?
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John Iliff
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Who set up Abilene as a 'cow town'
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Joseph McCoy
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Who invented the 'crazy quilt' system of buying land?
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Charles Goodnight
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How many cattle barons were there in 1885?
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There were 35 (owning 8 million hectares of land!)
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What decimated the herds of the Great Plains in January 1887?
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Storms :(
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What invention destroyed cattle ranching and who invented it?
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Joseph Glidden with barbed wire
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