The Long Drive

Longhorn cattle have wide horns and are native to this state.

• Oregon

• Wyoming

• Kansas

• Texas

These men worked as cowboys.

• Civil War

• ex soldiers

• formerly enslaved men

• freedmen

• Indigenous

• vaqueros

• from Mexico

• Native Americans

These cowboys caught wild cattle in south Texas.

Walking from Texas to Kansas took 3-4 months. What might you see on this walk?

This is a factory where meat is processed.

• packing house

• office

• ranch

• studio

a town, often in Kansas, where cattle trails connected with a railroad

• packing house

• brushpoppers

• cowtown

• Kansas

Fencing that prevents cattle from wandering

Fraction of cowboys who signed up for a second long drive

• 23

• 33

• 43

• 53

Civil War ended this year

This percent of cowboys were not white.