Cattle Ranching in the 1800s

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Cattle Ranching in the 1800s

• By Jonathan Brandt

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The History

• A ranch is a large area of land that is used to
  farm animals. Ranchers let the animals graze, and
  have space for themselves. In these open ranges
  they often raised cows, elks, bison, or even
  ostrich, emu and alpacas.

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Ranches

• A ranch is a large area of land that is used to
  farm animals. Ranchers let the animals graze, and
  have space for themselves. In these open ranges
  they often raised cows, elks, bison, or even
  ostrich, emu and alpacas

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Open-Range

• The western Open-Range tradition started from
  the early practice of animals grazing in newly
  gained western territories. The cattle could roam
  free regardless of ownership. Later these ranges
  were partly shut down due to farming, mining, and
  railroads ripping through the middle of them.

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Cattle Breeds

• There are over eight hundred breeds of cattle
  recognized worldwide. The type in the U.S. is
  Bos Inducus that is found in warmer climates,
  other kinds of cattle are Africangus, Aleutian
  wild cattle, American, Milking Devon, White park,
  Amerifax, Barzona, Beefalo, Beefmaster, Brangus,
  Bue Lingo, Florida Cracker, Randall, and Texas
  Longhorn.

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Life of a female cow

• The life of a female cow has a special purpose
  they are used for milk, butter, and after that,
  meat. In some cases, there is veal, which is a
  calf that is not very strong and is used for
  tender meat usually only two to four weeks after
  birth. The average life span of a cow is around
  twenty years, a cow on a dairy farm is alive for
  often four to five years.

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Meat Industry

• Men slaughter animals for beef in the meat
  industry. Using animals like pigs, cows, bison,
  sheep, and other livestock. This cattle industry
  is mainly focused on producing meat for human
  consumption but it also includes a variety of
  other products including hides, feathers, and
  dried blood. These industries are also called
  meat packing plants. The meat industry grew with
  the construction of railroads made available
  through the transport of items to central areas
  for processing, and the transport of products
  throughout the whole nation.

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Cattle and Meat transportation

• In the 1800s the main way to go somewhere was
  the railroad and they also used this to ship beef
  from one place to another. Using the railroad
  would be much faster than carrying it yourself in
  a wagon or something similar to that. By 1848
  the exportation of meat had increased almost 10
  the first shipment of meat supposedly was shipped
  in 1867 with twenty cars full of longhorn cattle.
  By 1900 the railroads dominated the meat market
  and the trucking industry was its rival. When
  the idea of the refrigerated trailer had come
  along, this was the main way of shipping cattle
  to different places. Overtime the railroads fell
  into disrepair, so they were used less to ship
  any more cattle to auctions, feeders, and
  processors. Shipping cattle by truck was much
  more economical, humane, and offered more options
  in routing cattle to auctions. The trucking
  industry helped to create an interconnected road
  system throughout the whole United States.

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Cowpeople

• A cowboy (or cowgirl), was an animal herder who
  took care of animals on a ranch in North America,
  they normally used a horse to herd the cattle,
  and took care of other things on the farm as
  well. A different type of a cowboy is called a
  Wrangler, who would only take care of the
  animals, (specifically the horses). Cowboys
  would also sometimes participate in rodeos, which
  is a large bull wrangling competition.

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The finishor is it?????????

• Ranchers had a large effect on the U.S. in all
  these ways. Ranchers are a big part of the
  history of North America. Providing meat and
  other products throughout the U.S.

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The power sources

• Meat Industry
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_packing_industry
  
• Cattle Breeds
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cattle_breeds
  
• Ranches
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranch
• World Book Encyclopedia No.3 C-Ch, Cattle, 1996
  Edition
• United States History, Holt Rinehart and Winston,
  2007, Chapter 18 Section 1 Pg. 589