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Item A History of the Beef Cattle Industry in the Inland Empire - transcript (duplicate).(UNKNOWN, 1937) Boyce, Todd Vernon"...It is hard to over-emphasize the importance of the cattle business in the west. When the Civil War ended the soldiers wandered home after Appomattox the Lone Star State boasted of 5,500,000 cattle. During the conflict the Southern Armies needed meat and needed it badly but the Union forces closed the dates from the Confederacy by an effective blockade. In the North the cattle industry prospered as the Northern armies offered a large and steady outlet for all salable stock and the prices rose until steak sold for forty cents a pound."Item A History of the Beef Cattle Industry in the Inland Empire - transcript.(UNKNOWN, 1937) Boyce, Todd Vernon"Columbus brought the first cattle to America in 1493 on his second voyage. Some of these were taken to Vera Cruz, Mexico, where they rapidly multiplied...and gave rise to the stock which later became known as the Texas Longhorn."