Wild Cattle Research Paper

In the middle of the last century, millions of wild horses and cattle roam the texas plains. Their ancestors have been brought to America by spanish settlers hundreds of years earlier. After the civil war Texas ranchers seen opportunities for making money from longhorns, as the wild cows was called. The big cities raising in the north needed beef to feed their growing populations. The ranchers would round up the wild cattle, drove them to the nearest railroad, and sell them. Every ranchers crew had a wrangler, a man who catch and tame wild horses. Other men, who came to be known as cowboys, were riding these horses and drove the cattle along.