If the grass was good, and the herd moved slowly, the cattle would get heavier and bring more money.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

The writers of the study have called for stronger rules requiring cattle to be treated before being sold at market.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

Other settlers brought huge herds of sheep to compete with cattle for the grass, and the sheep always won.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

With its growth came a new kind of worker -- the man who watched and took care of the cattle.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

He invented the skill of throwing a special rope called a lasso over a cow's head to catch wandering cattle.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

In the early eighteen eighties, the price of cattle rose to fifty dollars each, and many cattlemen became rich.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Huge herds of cattle were brought there from western states to be transported by railroad to markets in the eastern United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Bill and his men had so many cattle that they needed all of New Mexico to hold them.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

They just sang these songs as they rode on the saddles of their horses across the cattle lands.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

In the next four years, more than one-and-a-half-million cattle were moved north over the Chisholm trail to Kansas.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

As the cattle were brought in, the young animals were branded -- marked to show who owned them.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Now,most survive. As a result,many people have extra cattle to sell, and use the money to pay for school for their children.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

Business was so good that a five thousand dollar investment in the cattle industry could make forty-five thousand dollars in four years.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

They put together a huge herd of more than two hundred sixty-thousand cattle and set out for Sedalia.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Yet for thousands of years rinderpest has affected people by killing cattle and other animals and causing starvation.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

Indicine cattle have a hump and are found in India, South and West Asia and East Africa.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

There were millions of cattle in Texas, but no way to get them to the eastern markets.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Scientists examined several breeds and say the cattle genome appears to show evidence of this selective reproduction.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

He took part in some of the first movements of huge cattle herds from Texas to the railroads in the state of Kansas.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

Some say he invented cowboy songs to help calm the cattle and make the cowboy's life easier.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

Some cattlemen believed it might be possible to walk cattle to the railroad, letting them feed on the open grassland along the way.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

During his long life, Texas John Slaughter was a gunfighter,lawman,soldier, cattle rancher, professional card player and a representative of the state of Arizona.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

But the cattlemen believed they had proved that cattle could be walked long distances to the railroad.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Within a few years, there was not enough grass for all the cattle, especially along the trails.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

The president also showed his independence by investigating gifts of public land that the government had made to the railroad, wood and cattle industries.

VOA: special.2010.05.06