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Kansas City Stockyards in 1909 Kansas City Stockyards in 1904 with the Livestock Exchange Building View of stockyards & surrounding area. The stockyards were built to provide better prices for livestock owners. [citation needed] Previously, livestock owners west of Kansas City could only sell at whatever price the railroad offered. With the ...
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 ...
The ranch initially both raised its own cattle and served as a waypoint for shipping cattle between the company's ranch in Hartley County, Texas and markets in Kansas City. Sidney E. Whitney became the ranch's manager in 1893, and when the company liquidated its ranches in 1900, he purchased a large section of the ranch that included its ...
Massey, Sara R. Texas Women on the Cattle Trails (2006) excerpt and text search; Massey, Sara R., ed. Black Cowboys of Texas. (2000). 361 pp. excerpt and text search; McCoy, Joseph G. Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest (1874, reprint 1940). McCoy opened the first railhead to large shipments of Texas cattle in 1867.
The auction will begin at 11 a.m. Nov. 6 and take place at the refuge, which is in McPherson County. Kansas Wildlife to auction surplus bison at Maxwell Wildlife Refuge Skip to main content
The Big Die-Up (or Great Die-Up) refers to the death of hundreds of thousands of cattle on the Great Plains of the United States during the unusually cold and snowy winters of 1885-86 and 1886-87. Many ranchers were bankrupted as a result and the era of the open range in which cattle roamed unfenced on the plains began its decline.
Thousands of cattle in feedlots in southwestern Kansas have died of heat stress due to soaring temperatures, high humidity and little wind in recent days, industry officials said. The final toll ...
Milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird flu, U.S. officials said Monday. Officials with the Texas Animal Health Commission confirmed the flu virus is the Type A H5N1 ...