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Shipping Cattle to Market by Rail

by | May 10, 2018 | True West Blog

photo cattle loaded onto train chicago stockyards
Have you ever watched those trail driving movies and wondered what happened after the cattle were delivered to the railhead at Abilene, Dodge City or Wichita? These trains were heading some 500 miles to Chicago and would have been grueling on the cattle, train crews and cowboys. How were they watered and fed along the way, or were they? When one thinks of transporting millions of cows hundreds of m


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