distractors: mind direction head
sentence: People in the western states had to  raise  cattle at low cost and send them by railway to the eastern  markets  .But someone had to  look after  the cattle and get them to the nearest railroad.This was the job of a cowboy.Sometimes the  railroad  was more than a thousand kilometers away and it could take as  long  as six months to move the cattle.The  journey  was long but the cattle were driven  slowly  as not to lose  [MASK]  .Then they could be sold at a good price.