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Teaching SS in Elm. Edu
Final Review
26
History
Undergraduate 3
12/08/2010

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James Taylor White
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texas' first cattle baro, was amog the first ranchers to take cattle to market in Louisiana
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Open-Range Ranching
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because fencing materials were ot easy to find, most early ranchers practiced what in rasing their cattle
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Chisholm Trial
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what ran from TX to KA and was the first of the great cattle trials
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Abilene, KA
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the first cow tow, built by Joseph G. McCoy was
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Jose de Escandon
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the spanish colonizer who established land grants that later became ranchese was who
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longhorn
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breed of cattle with large horns
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western trail
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trail extending from San Antonio to Doge City
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Joseph F. Glidden
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invented barbed wire
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packing house
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warehous where beef is prepared for shipment
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barbed wire
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thin strand of metal used to fence off farm and ranches
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cow town
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serves as a market or shipping poit for cattle
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cattle drive
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the heerding of cattle to beef markets
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texas fever
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diseas transmitted from ticks to cattle
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king ranch
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south texas ranch covering more than a million acres
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charles goodnight
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established the JA Ranch in Palo Duro Canyon
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XIT Ranch
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Largest ranch I Texas located in the Panhadle
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rustler
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cattle thief
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King Ranch
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1852, Richard King- South Texas, 614,000 acres
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JA Ranch
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1876 Charles Goodnight John Adair, Palo Duro Canyon, more than a million acres
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Matador Ranch
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1878, A.M. Britton and H.H. Campbell, several states and canada, and over 3million acres
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George W. Kendall begins raisig sheep for wool
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in the 1850s, Kendall established a sheep ranch near boerne, Texas
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John W. Gates proves barbed wire keeps cattle in pens
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baarbed wire soon spread across the state fencing off individual farms and ranches
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Rustlers and others cut barbed wire fences
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in 1884 the state legislature passed a series of laws that outlawed fence cutting
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windmills allow cattle owners to pump water
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rancers could contain their cattle in a certain area and use windmills to provide water
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too many cattle to feed and servere weather conditions become serious problems
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problems arose when foregign investors heard of money making business deals and brought rances in west texas
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