The Decline of the Long Drive and the Cattle Boom

question 82

Multiple Choice

The decline of the long drive and the cattle boom resulted from

• A) the settlement of homesteading farmers on range land.
• B) a series of extraordinarily severe winters.
• C) overgrazing and overproduction.
• D) the inability to recruit enough veteran cowboys.
• E) barbed-wire fencing.

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