A history of the American nation . the raising of crops is the work of the pioneerwhen conditions favor. The western part of the old eastern ^ Travelers of the eighteenth century found the cowpcns among thecanebrakes and prairie pastures of the South, and the cow drivers tooktheir droves to Charleston, Philadelphia, and New York. Travelers attlie close of the War of 1812 met droves of more than a thousand cattleand swine from the interior of Ohio going to Pennsylvania to fatten forthe Philadelphia market. The ranges of the great plains with ranch, andcowboy and nomadic life are things of yeste
A history of the American nation . the raising of crops is the work of the pioneerwhen conditions favor. The western part of the old eastern ^ Travelers of the eighteenth century found the cowpcns among thecanebrakes and prairie pastures of the South, and the cow drivers tooktheir droves to Charleston, Philadelphia, and New York. Travelers attlie close of the War of 1812 met droves of more than a thousand cattleand swine from the interior of Ohio going to Pennsylvania to fatten forthe Philadelphia market. The ranges of the great plains with ranch, andcowboy and nomadic life are things of yesterday and to-day. The 482 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION states was an early cattle region, and the cowboy of the westernCarolinas was an important person in the days of the Revolu-tion. Sheep and hogs as well as cattle were raised in the uplandcountry and driven in great droves to the eastern towns. Soit was in the newer West. The wide prairies offered facili- ties unusuallv invitnig. In place of the wandering herds of. Breaking Raw PrairieFrom a contemporary illustration in Ilarper^^ Weekly buffalo, vast herds of cattle soon appeared; the cowboy andhis mustang became the conspicuous workers in a great in-dustry. For a time the public lands, where no man was inter-fered with, unless he stole a horse or a cow—an unforgivableoffence—were freely used. Later there were private ranches,immense estates, where thousands of cattle nibbled the grassand the watchful cowboy guarded his herds. After the rail-roads were built, train loads of cattle were carried to thestockyards of Kansas City, Omaha, and Chicago. ence of the Carolina cowpens guided the ranchers of Texas. One elementfavoring the rapid extension of the ranchers frontier is the fact that in aremote country lacking transportation facilities the product must be insmall bulk, or be able to transport itself, and the cattle raiser could easilydrive his product to market. (F. J. Turner, Influencesof the Frontierin Ame
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