Lesson 7:The Long Cattle Drive

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the Long Cattle Drive by Holly Melton illustrated by Ralph Canaday Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law. Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be addressed to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers, Attn: Permissions, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777. Printed in China ISBN-13: 978-0-547-02241-3 ISBN-10: 0-547-02241-7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0940 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 If you have received these materials as examination copies free of charge, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers retains title to the materials and they may not be resold. Resale of examination copies is strictly prohibited. Possession of this publication in print format does not entitle users to convert this publication, or any portion of it, into electronic format.
FOREWORD This story takes place in the late 1860s. The American Civil War was over. At that time, there was not enough beef in some parts of the United States. In Texas, though, there were huge cattle herds. Texas ranchers hired cowboys to bring the cattle together. The cowboys then led the herds to markets in the north. The routes the cowboys followed were called cattle trails. The trip north was called a cattle drive. This story happens on the Goodnight-Loving Trail. The trail began in Texas. It went north to Wyoming. The “long drive” on a cattle trail was hard. Many cattle drives took months. Some drives had 10 cowboys, 50 horses, and 3,000 cattle. The trip was dangerous. The cowboys had to cross big rivers. They faced rattlesnakes and robbers. Sometimes there were stampedes. WYOMING Cheyenne NEBRASKA Ogallala CATTLE TRAILS Denver COLORADO KANSAS Ellsworth Abilene Dodge City NEW MEXICO TERRITORY MEXICO GOODNIGHT-LOVIN G TRAIL P e cos R iver TEXAS WESTERN TRAIL OKLAHOMA CHISHOLM TRAIL San Antonio 2
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