the kansas city livestock trade
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1886-1892
History of Kansas Becoming a State
Importance of Kansas in mid-1800s
Expansion of United States
Traces its beginning to 1821
John Calvin McCoy
Influence of Railroads
Built in 1910
Fortress of Commerce
Growth and current status
Jesse Chisholm
The Route
Challenges
•Job Description
•Job difficulties
•Abilene, Kansas
•Dodge City
•Wichita
Demand for Beef
Cattle Drives
Cattle Kingdom
Open Range
End of an Era
•Chaotic transition – 1880s and early 1890s
•Regulator faction
•Free trade faction
•Battle Lines
•Shippers: Kickbacks and Rebates
•Difficulty with lucrative cattle trade
Railroads
Commission Merchants
Advertisements in local newspapers
•Andrew Drumm
•Andy Snider
Kansas Cattle TodayComparison
Differences
Statistics
Economic Impact National Rankings
Statistics
Farms in Kansas
Kansas Standard(A) The student develops historical questions
on a specific topic in Kansas history and analyzes the evidence in primary source documents to speculate on the answers. 4.5.2
The Kansas City Livestock Trade
Hazlett, O. James. “Chaos and Conspiracy: The Kansas City Live Stock Trade, 1886-1892.” p.126. Summer 1992. 10 November 2008.