A cattle town was a frontier settlement in the Midwestern United States that catered to the cattle industry. The economies of these communities were heavily...
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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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led to the development of "cow towns" across the frontier. According to the Kraisingers, "...four Texas-based cattle trails - the Shawnee Trail System...
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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 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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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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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 Punganur is an Indian breed of small zebuine cattle. It is found in the hill country of Chitoor District, in Andhra Pradesh in southern India, and...
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American frontier (section Cattle)
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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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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The Kangayam or Kangeyam is an Indian breed of draught cattle from the state of Tamil Nadu, in South India.: 211 Its area of origin is Kongu Nadu, the...
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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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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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threat against Native American residents, to its later days as a booming cattle town, to modern times as a corporate center, the city has changed dramatically...
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known as Clay Allison (September 2, 1841 – July 1, 1887) was a cattle rancher, cattle broker, and sometimes gunfighter of the American Old West. He fought...
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Droving (redirect from Cattle drovers)
distances. It is a type of herding, often associated with cattle, in which case it is a cattle drive (particularly in the US). Droving stock to market—usually...
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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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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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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 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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History of the Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 (redirect from Xhosa cattle-killing)
the restitution of some stolen cattle. On 22 April 1819, led by a prophet-chief named Makana, they attacked Graham’s Town, then held by a handful of white...
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played Marshal Mike Dunbar, in charge of keeping the peace in the booming cattle town of Wichita, Kansas. His deputies were Ben Matheson, played by McCrea's...
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Territory's Land Run of 1893. In 1894, Houston moved his family to the cattle town of Woodward in Oklahoma Territory. He was legal counsel of the Atchison...
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was 3,066. Known as a cow town in the 1870s, when the Kansas Pacific Railroad operated a stockyard here for shipping cattle to eastern markets, in the...
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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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large draught cattle. It originates in Dera Ghazi Khan District of Punjab Province in central-eastern Pakistan, and is named for the town of Dajal in that...
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Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah (1st ed.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423605874. Cattle Drive at IMDb Cattle Drive at the...
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to the town by his cattle crew he was responsible when they went on a wild drunken rampage. Cord is saved from death by Ralph, a prominent cattle owner...
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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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