the texas cattlemen finally got their act together from the civil war to drive cattle into illinois. what happened when they started doing this is it happened as early as 1860 in kansas. whenever the texas cattle that close to any domestic short horns, the short horns died. think about this if you are a kansas farmer, and you have a couple of dairy cows, and that is basically what you have. and this have a calf --as her goes by and a later a week later your dead. statestern part of the was settled by farmers like this, and they were tough on the texas cattlemen. they killed the herds if they could, stampeded them back into indian territory. take, on some occasions -- they actually took one tied to a tree and be it until it was bloody and they -- bloody. westerns were always as the vicious texas cattlemen and cowboys who raised terror with the defenseless farmers. it was the opposite way. mccoy had to find someplace out of range where he could drive cattle and not interfere with those farmers, because that was creating havoc. it was serendipitous that you had the building of the railro