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Map of major cattle trails between 1866-1890. The first large-scale effort to drive cattle from Texas to the nearest railhead for shipment to Chicago occurred in 1866, when many Texas ranchers banded together to drive their cattle to the closest point that railroad tracks reached, which at that time was Sedalia, Missouri.
The Swan Land and Cattle Company Headquarters are a historic ranch headquarters complex on Wyoming Highway 313 in Chugwater, Wyoming. Organized in 1883 in Scotland , the Swan Company was one of the largest ranching operations in the nation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, managing more than one million acres of land.
Moving cattle around the landscape leaves grasses and forbes that grouse use for cover and for seasonal food sources. This bunch is being moved from high-elevation summer allotments to the rancher's private land for the winter. Photo Credit: Theo Stein / USFWS: Date: 15 October 2014, 22:05: Source: Cattle Drive near Pinedale, WY: Author: USFWS ...
Wyoming State Veterinarian Dr. Hallie Hasel told Cowboy State Daily on Wednesday that approximately 50 to 60 cattle died after becoming infected – with more potential losses that authorities ...
The Wyoming Stock Growers Association (WSGA) is an American cattle organization that started in 1872 among Wyoming cattle ranchers to standardize and organize the cattle industry but quickly grew into a political force that has been called "the de facto territorial government" [1] of Wyoming's organization into early statehood, and wielded great influence throughout the Western United States.
By the 1890s, barbed-wire fencing had become standard on the northern plains, railroads had expanded to cover most of the U.S., and meatpacking plants were being built closer to major ranching areas, making long cattle drives from Texas to the railheads in Kansas unnecessary. The age of the open range was over and large cattle-drives were no ...
Big Piney is the oldest settlement in Sublette County. It was founded in 1879, when rancher Daniel B. Budd and his partner Hugh McKay came with a thousand head of cattle from Nevada hoping to ship them, but got caught instead in severe winter weather in the Green River Valley.
During the 1870s and 1880s, the ranch was typical of many medium-sized ranching operations in cattle country. In 1882, The Cheyenne Daily Leader , remarked that "the eastern person of inquiring turn of mind who writes to his friends out west to ask what a ranch is like would find his answer in a description of Tom Sun's."