They were the Texas Trail and Goodnight Loving Trail. When they got to Wyoming they wanted to stay south of the North Platte River because of Indian trouble. After Montana's gold rush, the ranchers moved north. They used brands to tell who the cattle belonged to. In Wyoming there are about 24,000 different kinds of brands.
Rustlers are people who try to steal cattle.
They took the cattle north then east on trains to be butchered. I'm going to tell you about their clothing. They wore a flannel shirt, brown jeans, chaps, a bandanna, cowboy boots, a vest, and a cowboy hat. Chaps are for keeping weeds out of their pants and for keeping their legs warm. Cowboys wore cowboy boots because they were easy to fit into the stirrup.