development

• what are cattle trails?

  routes used for driving cattle
• what are long drives?

  moving cattle over long distances
• what is Texas fever?

  a cattle disease
• how many cattle were there in Texas by the end of the civil war?

  5 million
• how much was a cow in Chicago (north) after the civil war?

  $40
• how much was a cow in Texas (south) after the civil war?

  $5
• who found a new way to get cattle to market without passing through Kansas?

  Charles goodnight and Oliver loving
• what was the new cattle route called?

  goodnight-loving trail
• how many cattle did goodnight and losing drive to fort summer and how much did they make?

  2000 and made $12,000 by selling 800 of the cattle
• who did loving sell the rest of the cattle to?

  John illif
• where had the railroad reach by 1866?

  abilene, kansas
• how much land did Joseph mcCoy buy?

  450 acres
• what did mcCoy establish?

  • stockyards to keep cattle
  • railway station and a hotel
  • marked out Chisholm trail which created a route for cowboys to drive cattle to abilene
• who established the first cow town?

  Joseph mcCoy
• how much did mcCoy spend advertising abilene to texans?

  $5000
• how many had driven along the Chisholm train by the end of 1867?

  35,000
• between 1867 to 1872 how many cattle were driven along Chisholm trail?

  3 million
• what did loving, goodnight and McCoy's work mean?

  created a quick and easier way to transport cattle creating a more profitable business for people increasing the cattle industry growth
• how could cattle be transported?

  by railroad
• why did the cattle industry grow?

  • goodnight loving trail
  • John iliff
  • railway
  • long drives
  • beef shortage in north
  • too many cattle in the south