Cowboys
The golden age of the American cowboy was short-lived.
It began in the 1860s with the great cattle drives from Texas north to Kansas.
By 1890, when railroads had reached remote areas, there was no more need for large-scale cattle drives.
Of course, cowboys have a history before 1860.
In fact, there were Mexican cowboys long before that.
The Spanish conqueror of Mexico, Hernan Cortes, brought cattle with him in 1521.
Cortes also branded his cattle with a three-cross design.
The Spanish sharp-horned cattle roamed the deserts and prairies freely.
Eventually, they found their way to Texas.
American settlers in Texas interbred their animals with the Spanish breed.
The Texas longhorn cow was the result.
It was famous for its bad temper and aggressiveness.
The longhorn was a dangerous animal, with each of its horns measuring up to three and one-half feet long.
After the American Civil War ended in 1865, disbanded soldiers, who were former black slaves and young men seeking adventure, headed west.
At that time, there were about five million cattle in Texas.
Back in the east, there was a big demand for beef.
By this time, railways from the east extended as far west as Kansas.
It was still more than 600 miles from South Texas to the railway.
Between the two places, there were rivers to cross,
Indian tribes, badlands, and other problems.
A fur trader named Jesse Chisholm had driven his wagon north in 1865.
Cowboys and cattle followed the Chisholm Trail north to Abilene, Kansas.
This cattle trail became the most famous route for driving cattle,
until it was barred with barbed wire in 1884.
In 1867, cattle dealer Joseph G. McCoy built pens for 3,000 cattle in the little town of Abilene.
Soon, Abilene was the most dangerous town in America.
After the long cattle drive, cowboys who had just been paid went wild.
Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok tamed Abilene in 1871
by forcing cowboys to turn over their guns when they arrived in town.
Other towns replaced Abilene as the wildest town in the West,
Newton, Wichita, Ellsworth, and Dodge City.
In Kansas, a herd of 3,000 Texas Longhorns might sell for $100,000,
making the rancher rich.
The cowboys might get $200 in wages,
which often disappeared on drink, women, and gambling.
Getting cattle to Kansas was far from easy.
One of the biggest difficulties was getting the herd across rivers,
especially when the river was high.
There were no bridges.
In 1871, 350 cowboys driving 60,000 cattle
waited two weeks for the water level in the Red River to go down.
Food for men and animals was also difficult to find at times.
An early cattleman developed the chuck wagon,
which were both a supply wagon and a portable kitchen.
In the 1870s, there were probably 40,000 cowboys in the West.
After the prairies were fenced in, there was less work.
Large ranches still employ cowboys to round up the cattle for branding or for sale.
Even today, about 20,000 cowboys still work in North America.
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