1. Economy of Texas

2. Ranching + = Started in SPAIN, came to TEXAS!!!
Different kinds of cattle bred together-- Texas Longhorns + =

3. Horses, Cowboys, Open RangeFences, Brands,
How to Ranch in Texas:
Spanish
Vaqueros (cowboys)
Horses
Open Range
BRANDS!!!
English
Worked on foot
No horses
Fenced in + =
Texas Ranching:
Horses, Cowboys, Open RangeFences, Brands,
Some worked on Foot!

4. Cattle Trails Trails from Texas Chisholm Trail Goodnight-Loving Trail
Western/Dodge City Trail

5. Cattle Trails Uses: Markets Cowtowns Money! Solutions: Barbed wire
Windmill
Togetherness
Problems:
Rustlers
Food supply
Farmers

6. Types of Farming = = = Subsistence Tenant/Sharecropping Commercial
landowner

7. King Cotton Cotton is Texas’ number one cash crop!
Cities and Industries grew
Houston, Waco
Problems:
Cotton bad = everything bad
Bad year buy on credit DEBT!!!

8. Railroads + = + = 1890: ship goods from TEXAS to anywhere in the USA
Good for what kind of farming??? + = + =