Why did cowboys go on cattle-driving trails?
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the cattle would need to be moved from one range ( eating stop ) to another..for a few reasons..\none.the grass needed to recover from the cattle eating it down to the roots..\ntwo. some times depending on what part of the country there were in..they needed to move the cattle to a summer area where there would be enough watter, and the opposite in the winter to protect them from a lot of wind and heavy snow..\n\nthen of course the ultimate walk for the cattle was when they were sold to the slaughter house to be made into steaks.. for all those Bar B Qs..\n\nI hope I came close to answering your question\n Good Luck
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cowboys hardly roughnecked with indians, cowboys spent their days protecting their scalps, and their horses from horse-thieves and ambitious young indian males who syoel the horses to become more rich. indians considered horses as a form of money. when an indian male took a wilf, it was customary to give the girls family 5-10 horses if she was poor, if she was rich it can take up to 100 horses to ern the right to marry her, and if you did you must also be a brave warrior, with many Coups, horses, and brave deeds. etc. Cowboys were cow herders, they spent long months working on ranches and inbetween towns moving large herds of cows or horses to markets. some fights did occure between indians and cowboys but most of them were scrimishes. suprise attacks. etc. usualy the indians got the better end of the fight, and sometimes the cowboy got the better end of the fight. Most fo your "wild west" battles took place between Indians and United States Army. and them battles were more than mere scrimishes. they were long and bloody. sometimes the Army would suprise attack the indians and whipe out entire villages just because people wanted the land. but then you have some battles that came to a draw, some battles won and lost, some battles not all indians were killed, but imprisoned or forced onto reservations... these fight occured to the dissaperance of the buffalo, treaty breaking, to many encounters with white settlers, and a growing white american population, who wanted the lands the indians lived on. one battle in particular was the bloodiest of all the battles. Little big horn. Gen. Louis Armstrong Custar lead 3 army battlions numbering 400 men, agianst a force of 4000 warriors from two combined indian tribes... Souix and the Cheyanne... the most famous of these warriors, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Big Foot, and many more lead the warriors. Gen L.A. Custar lost 2 battalions, one battlion lead by Maj. Reno was stuck in a smaller battle 3 miles from Little Big Horn, and was kept from advancing unto the battle, his battlion turned back and went back to their fort, while beign cashed by a band of warriors. Gen. L.A. Custar and his 2 remaining battlions all parised in the battle, they were completely whiped out no surviors. they only known white suvivour of the battle was a man known as Little Big-Man, who as a boy was adopeted and raised by the cheyanne after his wagon train was attacked and whiped out by Pawnee indians, only him and his sister survived.
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This has been taken from Amazon.com. The first link.\nEditorial Reviews \n\nBook Description\n\nAn extraordinary saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune \ndriving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier.\n\nThey left Missouri and were headed to Santa Fe. Standing in their way was a parched desert, a land of outlaws and enemies-and one man's dangerous past.\n\nHe was a wealthy englishman with two beautiful daughters. They were five dusty texans and a gambling man. And they were all on the ride of their lives.\n\nThe only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives.\n\nThe Santa Fe Trail\n\nGavin McCord and his brawling cowboys came to Missouri with a problem: 3,500 longhorns and not one buyer. That's where Gladstone Pitkin came in. A man with money and a dream of ranching in New Mexico, Pitkin bought McCord's cattle and hired his Texans for a trail drive from Independence to Santa Fe. But with an ill-fated gambler on the drive, the courageous, hardened riders weren't just a thousand brutal miles from Santa Fe-they were heading into a death trap.\n\n--This text refers to the Paperback edition. \n\nFrom the Back Cover\n\nHe was a wealthy Englishman with two beautiful daughters. They were five dusty Texans and a gambling man. And they were all on the ride of their lives. \n\nThe only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives.\n\nThe Santa Fe Trail\n\nGavin McCord and his brawling cowboys came to Missouri with a problem: 3,500 longhorns and not one buyer. That's where Gladstone Pitkin came in. A man with money and a dream of ranching in New Mexico, Pitkin bought McCord's cattle and hired his Texans for a trail drive from Independence to Santa Fe. But with an ill-fated gambler on the drive, the courageous, hardened riders weren't just a thousand brutal miles from Santa Fe-they were heading into a death trap.\n\n--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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go to www.mtbr.com and go to the trails section and look for trails in Texas youll probably find a bunch.
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I don't have any solid research but I imagine there were at least a few general reasons:\n\nTo spread out a kingdom because individuals and their livestock needed more land, OR to accomodate growing populations in a certain kingdom/city/empire.\n\nTo provide a safer buffer from enemies, that is, cities in the center of an increasing territory for better protection.\n\nTo secure resources or trade routes\n\nTo convert other people to the expanding religion\n\nTo populate newly/randomly discovered territories\n\nI am editing now, I suppose those things could have been the reason in the very earliest of times but in prehistoric societies, I bet survival sums it up pretty well. Maybe not expansion but certainly the nomadic thing...pick up and move to beat the weather or a threatening pack of animals, to find food or land appropriate to grow food and support livestock. Territory would certainly have had something to do with it, if there was a serious enough pissing contest with a threatening enough adversary, such as an unfriendly neighboring clan, a settlement of people might pick up and move to give themselves more safety by giving the big guy wider berth.
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When wild horses grow too much hoof, they head for rocky ground to chafe it away.\n\nThink about it.
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Well, animals do it to lighten the load, and to distract the pursuer on the scent trail.
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He liked to hire them to work on his ranch.
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Actually the cattle farmers made it up. Beef sales were down after poultry farmers invented mad cow disease so this was just retaliation. Meat should always be fully cooked regardless.
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They wanted to know there arses in a very intimate way. They wanted to ride a cowboy.
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Cowboys are great in politics and religion.
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they kept moving south, away from the ice. They were following the food.  So improvments in hunting helped them branch away from the demanding path of the mammoths.  Then, fire and the wheel, basic I know, but they needed to get far enough south to avoid the ice, OR skin the animals for their most valuable fur.
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Cowboy boots are good for riding because they slide in the stirrups easily. If you are doing more walking, hiking, or just being on your feet, you will want a soft sole boot so you don't slide, and for support and comfort. Remember new boots have to be broke in and you don't want to break them in while hiking. Your feet will blister. Hope this helps and have fun.
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Maverick is the name. Riding the trail to who knows where. Luck is his companion. Gamblin' is his game. \n\nMaverick
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EDWARD CHARLES ABBOTT was born in England in 1860. He came to the United States as a baby with his parents who settled in Lincoln, Nebraska. At that time, Nebraska was full of Texas cattle and Texas cowboys heading north. It was here that young Teddy Abbott joined the early trail-drives heading north to Montana.\n\nTeddy Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1980's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were intended to stock the northern ranges. He punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory. He later married a daughter of Granville Stewart, the wealthy and famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years, Edward Abbott was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue".
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when you say cowgirl, im thinking of a true cowgirl who works the land and runs the cattle, not some city slicker who is a wannabe poser.\n\nTrue: they are usually the one who does all the work behind the cowboy. the work the cowboy is doing is the work the cowgirl told him to do. \n\nIf she is single, she is still a cowgirl because she was raised that way, and had to put up with a male somewhere, so she is still tougher than nails. \n\nOf course all cowgirls want a pair of wranglers to chase!
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There were wild Indians, scavenger animals, swollen rivers, diseases, hungerness, steep hills, bumpy trails, and broken wagon parts... There were many dangers on the "California Trail" I think you mean Oregon Trail, right!?!?