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Cattle Drive
Our role play recruitment for cattle drive recruiters and recruits takes place in 1866 in a Texas panhandle town after the American Civil War. Herd owners hold a meeting where they recruit discharged Confederate war veterans and others to drive their cattle across hundreds of miles of prairie to Kansas and Nebraska. Kansas, which had been open before is now more than ever being settled by homesteaders in need of cheap land. The land is more valuable there in producing farm crops than in cattle. In comes the cattle investor who decides to use the old Spanish/Mexican practice of cattle driving to bring the goods from the interior of Texas to the northern areas where railroads in Kansas will take the beasts to market.
Role Play
The Texans simply learned the practice of cattle driving from the Spanish and Mexicans before who used the practiced to get their animals to markets in the North. While 1866-1886 was the classic time...
The state and former province had always relied heavily upon ranching and already existing were simply expanded. Long horns were originally raised and driven north for their ability to use in farm activities as draft animals. However, the invention of refrigerated freight cars, the demand for beef became more pronounced and the animals more and more were driven north for this purpose. The immediate emphasis mentioned at the meeting was the packing plant built by Phillip Danforth Armour the year before in 1865. Both United States and overseas demand had to be supplied ("People & events:," 2012). This year, the cattle can be sold to the northern markets for as much as $40 per head. This makes it profitable for cattle, particularly from Texas to be herded the long distances to market in Abilene. It was the Chicago plant and Mr. Armour's money that made the meeting possible.
The drive itself…
References
Lesson plan 1: cattle drives. (2006). Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ranchhouse/teachers_lp1b.html.
People & events: Philip danforth armour (1832-1901) . (2012). Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/p_armour.html.
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