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Why did ranchers have to get their cattle to Kansas and Missouri?

answer : To send them on the railroad to the east???

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Cattle drives from Texas started as early as 1836 with some ranchers using this method to get their cattle to railheads so they could sell them for beef, hides and tallow.

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