Cattlemen and Cowboys
Subjects / History / American West, 1840-1895
Land that is too poor to support the growing of crops is often ideal for keeping cattle on, and the Plains have proved to be no exception. Ranching is such a big part of American life that most western cities still have a rodeo at least once a year, where cowboys get dressed up and demonstrate their skills by riding bucking bulls and lassoing cows. Western clothing stores, stocking cowboy boots and hardy denims, are still commonly seen. Vast quantities of beef are consumed every year, most of it raised on American soil. The cattle industry in America today has its roots in the nineteenth century, when early farmers set up ranches on the vast Plains. Just like the homesteaders, cattle ranchers faced many hardships. We're going to learn about those hardships, and how they overcame them, in this title.
| Author: | Sally Thorne | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Peter McGowan | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-074-5 |
| Video ISBN: | 978-1-84906-574-0 |
Chapters
- Early Cattle Ranching and why it had to Spread
- Cattle Pioneers: Goodnight, Loving, McCoy & Iliff
- Factors Enabling the Development of Ranching on the Plains
- Cowboys: Their Work
- Cowboys: Myth and Reality
- The End of the Open Range
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Includes original GCSEPod image art
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
Titles
Chapters
- Texas and early cattle ranching
- The cattle kingdoms
- The effects of the Civil War
- The reasons for the Long Drive
- The coming of the railways
- The effects and importance of the railways
- Cattle trails and cattle towns as pioneered by men like Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving and Joseph McCoy
- Ranching on the Great Plains as pioneered by men like John Iliff
- Cowboys: who were they and the myth and reality of their lives and work
- The end of the open range
- Cattlemen and cowboys: ranching on the Great Plains
- The life and work of the cowboy
- Reality and myth
- The role of railroads and railroad companies
- Early cattle ranching in Texas
- The reasons for the cattle rails and the development of cow towns
- Ranching on the Great Plains
- The life and work of the cowboy: myth and reality
- The end of the open range
- the Ranchers: development of ranching, cattle drives, cow towns and cowboys
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