• replaced Abilene as the major cattle towns in 1872. These three towns found themselves on rival railroads and competed for the cattle trade. In 1875 the three...
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    Texas cattle north to market. The cattle towns flourished between 1866 and 1890 as railroads reached towns suitable for gathering and shipping cattle. The...
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  • Cattle Town is a 1952 American Western film directed by Noel M. Smith and written by Thomas W. Blackburn. The film stars Dennis Morgan, Philip Carey,...
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    booming cattle industry of the 1860s and 1870s were the cattle towns in Kansas and Missouri. Like the mining towns in California and Nevada, cattle towns such...
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    The Australian Cattle Dog, or simply Cattle Dog, is a breed of herding dog developed in Australia for droving cattle over long distances across rough...
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    established the town in 1887 after construction of the railroad to that point for shipping cattle to markets. The town was on the Great Western Cattle Trail. In...
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    The Great Western Cattle Trail is the name used today for a cattle trail established during the late 19th century for moving beef stock and horses to markets...
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    altercations, shoot-outs, gunfights, and standoffs often associated with cattle towns in the American wild west. Most famous was the 1879 Long Branch Saloon...
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    Ranch (redirect from Cattle ranch)
    primarily to ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle and sheep. It is a subtype of farm. These terms are most often applied to...
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    Adapted from Ernest Haycox's 1941 novel Trail Town, the production's plot is set in the Old West, in the cattle town of Abilene, Kansas in 1870. In the years...
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    Wagyu (redirect from Wagyu cattle)
    wagyū, lit. 'Japanese cattle') is the collective name for the four principal Japanese breeds of beef cattle. All wagyū cattle originate from early twentieth-century...
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    the cattle trade. With no place else to go, Dodge City suddenly became the "queen of the cow towns." A new route known as the Great Western Cattle Trail...
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    Chisholm Trail (1969) online, Robert R. Dykstra, The Cattle Towns. A Social History of the Kansas Cattle Trading Centres (Knopf, 1968)online. Dykstra, Robert...
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  • Cattle mutilation (also known as bovine excision and unexplained livestock death, or animal mutilation) is the killing and mutilation of cattle under...
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    Punganur dwarf cattle which originated from the Chitoor District of Andhra Pradesh in southern India is among the world's smallest humped cattle breeds.[citation...
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    bullock drawn wagons and timber junkers to towns and seaports for cabinet making or export. These cattle were among the earliest breeds in Australia...
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  • prevailed. After the war, Kansas was home to frontier towns; their railroads were destinations for cattle drives from Texas. With the railroads came heavy...
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    Retrieved September 4, 2009. Robert R. Dykstra, Cattle Towns: A Social History of the Kansas Cattle Trading Centers (1968) John Rossel, "The Chisholm...
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    directions were also being filled with huge herds of Texas and Kansas cattle. Towns sprang up to serve the ever-changing needs of the farmers and ranchers...
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    dance hall girl who worked in Dodge City, Kansas and other frontier cattle towns during the 1870s. She later became famous as Squirrel Tooth Alice, madam...
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  • Cowtown (redirect from Cow town)
    cowtown or Cowtown in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cowtown may refer to: Cattle towns, a generic name often associated with the American Old West Abilene,...
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    Office. p. 22. ISBN 0-7884-0579-9. Gray, Jim. "Abilene History". Kansas Cattle Towns. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved April 23, 2011...
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    1870) was a lawman in the American Old West and briefly marshal of cattle town Abilene, Kansas. He was killed and nearly decapitated in the line of...
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    Cowboy (redirect from Cattle handler)
    who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks. Cattle drives ensure...
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  • The presence of cattle in Japan dates to about the second century AD, in the Yayoi period – about the same time that the cultivation of rice was introduced...
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    towns. The word Senn or Senner is the term for Alpine herdsmen and dairymen (an Alpine meadow is called a Sennelager) who tend other farmers' cattle and...
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    Drovers' road (redirect from Cattle droving)
    Times. 17 October 1941. p. 2. Dykstra, Robert R. (1 January 1983). The Cattle Towns. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6561-5. Bibliography Addison, Sir...
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  • Abilene was no longer accepting Texas cattle with Newton, Wichita and Ellsworth becoming the new cattle towns.: 23–26, 113  The country about Abilene...
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    Spanish Fort, Texas while preceding the Red River cattle crossing into Indian Territory and the cattle towns of America's northern heartland. After the saloon...
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    mineral deposits. Cattle towns in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska became centers of gambling as well. Thanks to the railroad and cattle industries, a...
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