Why did cattle ranchers send their cattle to distant markets?
Why did cattle ranchers send their cattle to distant markets? The work was so demanding that cowhands brought a number of horses so that each day a fresh one would be available. The coming of railroads gave western ranchers a way to get cattle to distant markets. How did cattle ranchers benefit from the railroads? The railroads had created them, and the railroads had ended them: railroad lines pushed into Texas and made the great drives obsolete. But ranching still brought profits and the Plains were better suited for grazing than for agriculture and western ranchers continued supplying beef for...