FRONTIER AND CATTLE DRIVES

African American soldiers of the Frontier Wars

• Black Panthers

• Buffalo Soldiers

• Freedmen Soldiers

• Blackfoot

Important thing originally preventing settlement of West Texas

• Indian Attacks

• Weather

• lack of lumber to build

• extreme distances

land given to builders of the state capitol became

• XIT Ranch

• King Ranch

• JA Ranch

• Matador Ranch

Rapid growth of the cattle industry occurred because of

• demand for beef in the East

• High Speed trains

• lack of salt pork

• Mad Cow disease killed the cattle in the west

From 1860-1890 the following took place

• Spanish Colonization

• Cattle Drives and Frontier Wars

• Exploration

• Mexican-American War

A shaman promised victory for Quanah Parker and the Comanche at

• Battle of Adobe Walls

• Battle of Palo Duro Canyon

• Omaha Beach

• Warren Wagon Train Raid

Who was "Orator of the Plains"

• Satanta

• Quanah Parker

• Sitting Bull

• Red Eagle

the US Government supported the slaughter of the Buffalo for two reason:

• control of the Indians and land settlement

• food and clothing

• save the prairie grasses and prevent overpopulating

• need for fertilizer and leather

Refrigeration led to the development of the

• Meatpacking Industry

• Ice Boxes

• Air Conditioning

• Dairy Industry

What led to the decline of the Open Range

• over farming

• barbed wire

• refrigeration

• Indian Wars