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“Trains helped transform the eastern end of the Great Plains as well, accelerating settlement and community building in the new Kansas cow towns created দ্বারা the cattle boom. The western cattle industry had its origins in the antebellum era, when Texas cattlemen began to drive herds of hardly longhorn cattle west to California and Colorado, where they would feed the miners in the goldfields, অথবা to Kansas City and St Louis, where they could be shipped to eastern markets. It was not until the late 1860s, after the interruption of the Civil War and the...
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