Cattle and Cotton Lesson 2

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In 1884 the Texas legislature passed a law that made _____ a felony.

Before _____ became available, animals had to be shipped live to slaughter houses and those slaughterhouses had to be near markets in order to avoid the meat spoiling.

Thousands of cattle died due to _____ during the winters of 1885 and 1887.

_____ paid careful attention to cattle breeding and improved his herds, making his beef cattle some of the best in the United States.

_____ invented the most successful type of barbed-wire.

The 3 million acres of the _____ came from a grant from the state of Texas to the ranch's owners in exchange for their financing of a new state capitol building in Austin.

Wild horses called _____ roamed freely on the open range and banded together to form wild herds.

While many ranchers of the 1800s grazed their cattle on the open range, Richard King and _____ were among the first ranchers to fence their land.