Cattle Country

Cowboys and  Farmers on the Plains

    Railroads connected the four dollar cow
                   with the forty-dollar market.
    Texas longhorns lean, hardy, fleet of foot, and ill-tempered-  (does this description
           remind you of anyone in the room?)
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            Texas Longhorn Cattle

Chisholm Trail

Indian trader Jesse Chisholm first marked this famous cattle trail for his wagons. Joseph G. McCoy arrived at Abilene, the end of the extended Chisholm 

Cattle Trail, in 1867 and built stockyards that he advertised throughout Texas.

In the five years from 1867 to 1872, more than 
three million head of cattle were driven up the 
Chisholm Trail from Texas to Abilene.

By 1870 thousands of Texas longhorn cattle were being driven over the Chisholm Trail to the Union Pacific (later the Kansas Pacific) Railroad shipping center at Abilene.

By 1871 as many as 5,000 cowboys were often paid off during a single day. Abilene became known as a rough town in the West.
  

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Watch Cattle Ranching History 15min video:

    Two ranching groups that for several years
controlled millions of acres of Indian Territory's grazing land were the

   1.  Cheyenne-Arapaho Stock Growers  Association

   2.   Cherokee Strip Livestock Association

   3.  Over 300,000 head of cattle were grazed for
                between $100,000 and $200,000

Photo Credits:

Cherokee Cowboys: http://www.kancoll.org/khq/images/59_1_cherokee_wait.jpg

Jesse Chisholm: com/jcsrt57/ jesse_chisholm_c.jpg

Lesson Objectives

Students will learn

OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:

1. list

2. explain the difference between

3. describe the

4. chart on a map the

5. define the terms

6. Explain the significance of

Knowledge: Recall of data.

Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.

Application:
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace.

Analysis:
Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences. 

Synthesis:
Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

Evaluation:
Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.