History 8th Chapter 19.3
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- cow town
- places where cattle were held in great pens until they could be loaded into railroad cars and shipped to markets in the East
- Chisolm Trail
- famous cattle trail that crossed rivers at the best places and passed by water holes
- development of cow towns
- place where cattle drives ended along railroad lines Communities were formed where families could thrive. Main street was where people conducted business
- cowhand
- rode alongside huge herds to keep them moving and round up strays in good and bad weather
- chaps
- leather leggings protected a rider's legs from the thorny plants that grow in the Southwest
- beginning of cattle kingdom
- demand for beef, cattle drives to round up longhorns take to railroad
- vaquero
- skilled riders who herded cattle on ranches in Mexico, California and the Southwest
- end of cattle kingdom
- farmers moved onto range, fenced their fields. Open ranges began to disappear
- Cattle Kingdom
- open range producing ranchers, cowboys, cattle drives and cow towns
- Cattle drive
- driving animals hundreds of miles north to railroad lines