What was the purpose of cattle drives?

Answer 1

To get the cattle to market, usually in a railroad hub.

Answer 2

To take cattle from where they were raised to:

1. Towns where they could be sold.
2. Rail stations where they could be shipped to buyers

A really good movie that has a cattle drive in it is "The Cowboys" with John Wayne.

Answer 3

Cattle drives took place to bring cattle to a centralized railroad depot at the beginning of trans continental railroading.

Answer 4

The cowboys had to drive their cattle from Texas to Dodge City, Kansas to sell them back in those days.

Answer 5

The ranchers and cowboys would herd the cattle from where they were raised to the place where they would be put on trains to be taken to factories of whatever. Or maybe if you sold someone all your cows they would just come and round them up and drive them to their own ranch...that's probably faster than trying to put them all on a train or something.

Answer 6

To move cattle from one area to another. They take the cattle out in the summer to graze and then move them to another area during winter.

Answer 7

Cattle drives were how cattle were transported before big, air polluting trucks.

Answer 8

The ranchers took their cattle to the market for sale. Most markets were located along a railroad line and there were very few of them.

Answer 9

To get the cattle from where they were on the plains of Texas to the railheads in Kansas and Missouri, where they were sold to persons who shipped them out to the slaughterhouses.

Answer 10

To bring the cattle to the markets where they would be sold for meat.