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movement of large numbers of cattle to railroad centers and then to markets. Taken along the Chisholm, Goodnight-Loving or other trails by cowboys (vaqueros), any who were African American or Mexican and paid about a dollar a day for their dangerous work. These began to end in the 1880's when overgrazing destroyed the grass and homesteaders used barbed wire to fence off the open prairies.
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