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Cattle drives in the United States
movement of cattle on the hoof in America / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A cattle drive is the process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another, usually moved and herded by cowboys on horses. The drives usually took a long time, perhaps six months or more. The drives went up from Texas to Kansas.
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