Round the World, Vol. 5
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Excerpt from Round the World, Vol. 5: A Series of Interesting Illustrated Articles on a Great Variety of Subjects; Cattle Trail of the Prairies, Life Abroad a Whaler, Through the Catacombs, Japanese Ware, the Castled Rhine, Truck Farming, Making Guns for Our Warships, the Procession Blood At The vast Rock Island Railroad system which gridirons the old cattle country to-day was then an unborn idea. The market existed, but the question was, how to get the cattle to the points of sale. Plainly they must walk. This fact settled, it was not long until the days of the Northern cattle drive were ushered in. The first drive of consequence was in the early summer of 1866, as soon as the spring round-up had made calculation of numbers possible. Range operators started northward herds aggregating 270,000 head, the destination being railroad points in Missouri. A look at the map of the country lying between Rock Bluffs Ford on the Red River, and such points as Sedalia and St. Louis in Missouri, even to-day, more than forty years after the first of the great Texas drives wandered into history, gives an idea of the natural difficulties encountered during such a journey. Besides the obstacles created by nature, others were met, such as the outlaws who infested Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas, and the fear of the deadly Spanish fever, a disease to which Texas cattle seemed peculiarly susceptible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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