Rachel S.Basic Cowboy info;they were based off vaqueros from mexico( basically just mexican cowboys) .. buffalo started to die out need beef went up.-Worked 10 to 14 hours a day.. usually age was fifteen to fourty.spent most of the time on horses.- trail boss earned $100 month or more. spent three months on long drives with 250-300 cattle.had to deal with crossing rivers and attacks.Demand for beef;Buffalo started dissapearing. demanded for beef goes up.-increased cowboy demand.1800's it was the first billion people in population.more the population, more the comand of beef.The North East wanted the most beef, because there was more people living in the north east.End of the Open rangeended because overgrazing, bad weather, and invention of barbed wire.1883 - 1887 really bad weather period.ranchers went to smaller herds.they used fence.the open range mid 1800's is when they didn't use fences or anything, they just let the cattle run around because there wasn't a lot of grass and land, because of the weather and stuff.Chapter 5-2. Ashley Johannsen;Settling on the Great Plains;located- in between the missouri river, and south dakota, and north dakota.Railroads, two main ones, Union and Pasic. Pasific, started in the east. Union started in west and connected.land closer to railroads, are more pricyier and valuable then land not close.Central Pacific moved eastward from Sacramento.Civil war verterans, Irish and chinese immigrants, African American did most of the hard work.Both eventually reasched Utah by spring of 1869.talking bout.. The first transcontimental railroad..Promitory point utah, that's were the two railroads met, to make the first railroad.. year 1869.- know the story.Homestead Act;passed in 1862- offers 10 acres of free land to any citizen who is head of house hold, like couples.from 1862 ti 1900, up to 600,000 families took government offer.several thousand were exodusters.Private speculators, railroad and state agents used law also.10% land used was settled by families.alot of land was ment for people that weren't rich. problem with system was that they sent out people to take advantage of this law. they only took the land because they wanted to sell the land later on in history.90% of it was taken by land speculators.
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