you're not too thrilled with the presence of texas cattlemen. so the eastern part of the state was settled by farmers like this, and they were tough on these texas cattlemen. they killed the herds if they could or stampeded them back into indian territory or they would take and on some occasions they actually took a drover, tied him to a tree, and whipped his back until it was a bloody pulp and said don't come this way again. they were very serious. it always kind of tickles me a little bit to see westerns where it's always these vicious texas cattlemen and cowboys who raise terror with these poor defenseless farmers. it was much the opposite way. so mccoy had to find some place out of range where heck drive cattle and not interfere with those farmers because that was creating havoc. so it was serendipitous that you had these railroads across the state. it's building on farther west. so this creates that first link into these eastern markets. so the texas cattlemen could drive their cattle up to here. they could do their business in here. then t