Owing to Chicago's central place in the meat packing industry, Harris made the acquaintance of various cattlemen, who inspired him to leave the big city to take up work as a cowboy.

The first settlers were cattlemen who used the open range at will and moved cattle northward along the Great Western Cattle Trail.

As open range areas gave way to farming homesteaders who fenced their land, cattlemen found it more difficult to feed their herds.

An appeal for help by Wyoming's Acting Governor ( who was in close cahoots with the cattlemen ) convinced President Benjamin Harrison to call out the army from nearby Fort McKinney, and after an all-night ride the soldiers arrived just in time to save the invaders.

His wife was Miss Maggie ( Margaret ) Williams, a daughter of W. G. ( Caddo Bill ) Williams, owner of the Half Moon Ranch, who started Silver City in 1872 by building a trading store for those cattlemen driving their herds of cattle up the Chisholm Trail.

Spanish cattlemen had introduced cattle ranching and longhorn cattle to the Southwest in the 17th century, and the men who worked the ranches, called " vaqueros ", were the first " cowboys " in the West.

The area earns its name from the cattlemen who would place rocks of salt into logs and holes in the earth.

It originates from a dish cooked by the cattlemen ( gulyás also means cowherd ) who tended their herds in the Great Hungarian Plain, known as the Alföld or Puszta in Hungarian.

So Mosby was removed, but in the end, the cattlemen were convicted and one died in prison while at least one Senator who had charged Mosby with misconduct was himself removed from office for misconduct.

Hardin – Simmons University was founded as Abilene Baptist College in 1891 by the Sweetwater Baptist Association and a group of cattlemen and pastors who sought to bring Christian higher education to the Southwest.

Fort Worth had a knack for separating cattlemen from their money.

The stock route was proposed as a way of breaking a monopoly that west Kimberley cattlemen had on the beef trade at the beginning of the 20th century.

This bridge allowed cattlemen to load their animals onto the railroad west of the Arkansas instead of fording the river, as had been the practice previously.

The area had been a campsite for cattlemen tending their herds between 1878 and the spring of 1882, when a town of tents was created by railroad workers and their families.

In 2005, Bracks announced that Victorian cattlemen would be banned from using Victoria's " High Plains " to graze cattle, ending a 170 year tradition.

The true history of the Johnson County War goes something like this: In April 1892, some of Wyoming ’ s biggest cattlemen enlisted 23 hired killers from Texas and ( along with a very sympathetic newspaper reporter ) " invaded " north-central Wyoming to kill " rustlers.

Named for the Gadsden Purchase, the stately five-story, 160-room hotel became a home away from home for cattlemen, ranchers, miners, and businessmen.

Another legend states that cattlemen driving herds from Texas to railways back east always found water " still there ".

Thick stews similar to pörkölt and the original cattlemen stew are popular throughout almost all the former Austrian-Hungarian Empire, from Northeast Italy to the Carpathians.

The earliest cowboys in Texas learned their trade, adapted their clothing, and took their jargon from the Mexican vaqueros or " buckaroos ", the heirs of Spanish cattlemen from Andalusia in Spain.

Around the turn of the 20th century, cattlemen from Cannonville and Henrieville used the basin as a winter pasture.

Following these successive failed attempts to settle the land, Gonçalo de Sousa ( second Captain-Donatário of the islands of Corvo and Flores ) was authorized to send slaves ( likely from the island of Santo Antão, in the Cape Verde archipelago ) to Flores and Corvo as farmers and cattlemen ( 12 November 1548 ).

And before the advent of the 60's, the Padre Garcia cattle market prevailed and has become a byword to cattlemen this side of Batangas, This initial success is attributed to a combination of factors, the favoured business environment prevalent at the time was offered here ; peace and order ; accessibility ( the greater percentage of traders from Manila, Cavite, Quezon, Laguna has to passed here first before Rosario.

These men were at the front lines, engaging traders, seeking cattlemen from all parts to come to this little town.

It is said that it was the meeting place of bullfighters, businessmen, cattlemen and bullfighting fans from the nearby Plaza de Toros Condesa.

The Kid's gang also stole from other cattlemen and became a serious problem in Lincoln County.

As farmers and ranchers began to compete for precious land and water, cattlemen found it more difficult to feed their herds, prompting cowboys to cut through fences.

As farmers and ranchers began to compete for precious land and water, cattlemen found it more difficult to feed their herds, prompting cowboys to cut through fences.

The cattle towns would spring up as land speculators would rush in ahead of a proposed rail line and build a town and the supporting services attractive to the cattlemen and the cowboys.

By simplifying reality and grossly exaggerating the truth, the novels captured the public's attention with sensational tales of violence and heroism, and fixed in the public's mind stereotypical images of heroes and villains — courageous cowboys and savage Indians, virtuous lawmen and ruthless outlaws, brave settlers and predatory cattlemen.

On the long trips — up to two months — the cattlemen faced many difficulties.

When gold and silver were discovered in the Sierra Nevada and the Inyo Mountains, the resulting sudden influx of miners, farmers, cattlemen and their hungry herds brought conflict with the Owens Valley Paiute, whose crops were being destroyed.

In Western Australia at the beginning of the 20th century, east Kimberley cattlemen were looking for a way to traverse the western deserts of Australia with their cattle as a way to break a west Kimberley monopoly that controlled the supply of beef to Perth and the goldfields in the south of the state.

After the cattlemen return with a severely injured Roddy, she is forced to nurse him.

As cattle prices slowly rebounded, the range was once again stocked with cattle, though the second wave of cattlemen utilized hardy English breeds instead of the Texas longhorns of the earlier outfits.

On April 22, over 100, 000 settlers and cattlemen ( known as " boomers ") lined up at the border, and with the army's guns and bugles giving the signal, began a mad dash into the newly opened land to stake their claims ( Land Run of 1889 ).

By 1905, most of the land was subdivided, with large tracts being sold to other cattlemen and small amounts of land being sold to farmers.

Since 1945 some cattlemen have selected out the few red calves, believing them to have advantages of heat tolerance and the ability to cross with other red breeds without introducing the dominant black color.

The two cattlemen sold beef to the army for $ 12, 000 in gold, and then Loving drove the stock cattle on to Colorado and sold them near Denver, while Goodnight returned to Weatherford, the seat of Parker County, Texas, with the gold and also for a second herd.

A trocar is a surgical instrument that is used by cattlemen and shepherds to puncture body cavities and relieve the suffering of an animal with bloat caused by eating too much young grass.

On the outskirts of a wind-swept Arizona cattle town, an aggressive and strong-willed saloonkeeper named Vienna maintains a volatile relationship with the local cattlemen and townsfolk.

The breed became popular with cattlemen for their smooth gaits and ability to work with cattle.

In 1866-67, Chisum formed a partnership with cattlemen Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving to assemble and drive herds of cattle for sale to the Army in Fort Sumner and Santa Fe, New Mexico, to provide cattle to miners in Colorado as well as provide cattle to the Bell Ranch.