40 NORTHERN COLORADO ICONS: Cattle
In the 1800s, low-priced, wild and rangy Texas longhorns were driven north to Colorado over the Goodnight-Loving Trail where they fattened on native grasses.
The cattle business is still big business in Colorado with 2.5 million cattle and calves being fed and raised today. More than 1 million
John C. Dawson made the first drive of stock in 1859, and following Dawson from Texas with their herds came John Chisholm, Tom Boggs, John Wesley Iliff, Charles Goodnight and Frank Pope.
The cattlemen sold beef to mining camps and work crews of the westbound railroads with rumored profits of 200 to 300 percent.
Then the sheepherders contested the grazing rights, drought depleted the grasslands, and sodbusters planted fields and strung hidetearing barbed wire.
W.D. Farr of Greeley said from 1900 forward, lamb feeding was an ever-increasing industry in Northern Colorado and the biggest agricultural business in the state.
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