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| texas' first cattle baro, was amog the first ranchers to take cattle to market in Louisiana |
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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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| what ran from TX to KA and was the first of the great cattle trials |
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| the first cow tow, built by Joseph G. McCoy was |
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| the spanish colonizer who established land grants that later became ranchese was who |
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| breed of cattle with large horns |
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| trail extending from San Antonio to Doge City |
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| warehous where beef is prepared for shipment |
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| thin strand of metal used to fence off farm and ranches |
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| serves as a market or shipping poit for cattle |
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| the heerding of cattle to beef markets |
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| diseas transmitted from ticks to cattle |
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| south texas ranch covering more than a million acres |
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| established the JA Ranch in Palo Duro Canyon |
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| Largest ranch I Texas located in the Panhadle |
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| 1852, Richard King- South Texas, 614,000 acres |
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| 1876 Charles Goodnight John Adair, Palo Duro Canyon, more than a million acres |
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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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