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Rise and Fall of the Beef Industry

Explore the rise and fall of the beef industry from its peak in the late 1800s to its downfall due to various factors such as experimentation with different cattle breeds, limited grazing availability, economic downturn, severe winters, and more. Discover the lasting impact of the cowboy lifestyle and its enduring popularity.

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Rise and Fall of the Beef Industry

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  1. Rise and Fall of the Beef Industry Or hoofin’ heifers to the railhead until they are dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAvT521-gLo

  2. In Praise of Beef • The cattle trade was at its peak from 1867 until the early 1880s. • The following factors contributed to this: • Increased number of railway lines - able to transport cattle to new markets (Omaha, Chicago, New York, San Francisco) •  Development of refrigerated rail carriages - cattle could be slaughtered before transportation (saves shipping costs) • Removal of Indians from the Plains to reservations - more land available for ranching

  3. Downfall of the cattle industry • In the last twenty years of the nineteenth century the beef trade virtually collapsed. The following factors contributed to this: • Farmers began to experiment with different breeds of cattle that could not live on the open range. (wanted beefier cows) • There was less grass available for grazing due to the number of people settling on the Plains. (dang farmers) • In 1883 a drought limited grass on the prairie. • The demand for beef fell which meant that ranching was less profitable. (economic downturn squashed demand for all items) • The winter of 1886/7 was very severe - cattle and cowboys died in the freezing temperatures

  4. Only here for a good time, not a long time • In roughly 25 years, the cowboy lifestyle and the wild west captured the imagination of the world. • Number of books films, stories about the life of the cowboy tell the popularity of the genre. • Europeans vacation in America pretending to be cowboys. • The cowboy is still heroic and dramatized today.

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