Cowboys Post Civil War

The way things are now are very different from the ways they did it in the past.
Cowboys led their cattle more than 25 miles a day. Wars with Native Americans started by land and cattle. Agriculture and cattle was how you got money. Another big part of Texas is its oil. Before oil was found in Texas, there was only one oil rig in the whole world. Scientists believed that there was no oil in Texas. In 1900, a team was hired to drill for oil. Oil in Texas had finally been discovered. On January 10, 1901, the drill reached 1,139 feet deep, and workers had a shock. The drilling pipe suddenly shot out of the ground into the air, followed by mud, gas, and oil. The explosion went 100 feet into the air and sprayed out for nine straight days. Because railroads enabled farmers and ranchers to transport their products more efficiently, by the turn of the century Texas had become a leading producer of both cattle and cotton.
Wild longhorns could be sold for up to 6 times as much in the northern states. Ranch owners corralled wild longhorns and organized drives to sell cattle as far away as Canada and much more. Cowboys, with their iconic hats and boots, ignored personal danger to get their cattle safely to market. They spent weeks at a time on the trail, earning a nationwide reputation for fierce independence and becoming a lasting symbol of Texas determination. Although the era of the cowboy slowly came to an end as ranchers found that railroads were a faster and more economical way of transporting cattle for sale, the era of ranching and cattle production