Sentence:  Hercules L. Dousman , fur trader and merchant at Prairie du Chien , contracted to supply Selkirk 's people with some 300 head of <WSD>cattle</WSD> , and Alexis Bailly and Francois Labothe were hired as drovers . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age