Trains try to cut through the snow during the 1886 blizzard outside of Dodge City, Kansas. This snow
Trains try to cut through the snow during the 1886 blizzard outside of Dodge City, Kansas. This snowstorm, in December, was just the beginning of “The Big Die-Up,” in which over 100 people and the vast majority of the state’s livestock died. Over the previous twenty years, Kansas and other states on the Great Plains had enjoyed unusually mild weather conditions that had encouraged cattlemen to graze massive herds on the grasslands of the plains. After the harsh winter of 1886-87, the period of open range ranching on the plains came to an end.{WHF} {HTE} {Medium} -- source link
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