Whole families migrated a thousand miles driving herds across the plains

Evidence

I met afterwards 2,000 lean Texan cattle, herded by three wild-looking men on horseback, followed by two wagons containing women, children, and rifles. They had traveled 1,000 miles. Then I saw two prairie wolves, like jackals, with gray fur, cowardly creatures, which fled from me with long leaps. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 156

Categorization

• CANDY: Concrete, quantified glimpse of settler migration on the prairie; evocative of the era’s scale of movement.
• XREF: connects to: Emigrant trains moved west carrying entire households in visible, weary exodus — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 155; Western emigrant wagon families spent months crossing with devastating losses — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 344; Established migration chains persist and reactivate across generations (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Western emigrant wagon families spent months crossing with devastating losses #corroborates (1.00) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 344
• European colonial careers routinely displaced families across vast distances #exemplifies (1.00)
• Established migration chains persist and reactivate across generations #expands (0.90)
• Migration dissolves descent structures and with them household authority #complicates (0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2378
• Migrations become self-sustaining processes that outlive their original causes #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3836
• Female migration shifted from dependent family moves to independent household-head movement #complicates (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3827
• Changes in sea level allowed animals to migrate to the Americas. #complicates (0.70) — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 122
• Humans began migrating from Africa to other continents about 40,000 years ago. #complicates (0.70) — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 122
• Defying caste rules forced hundreds of Balai families into mass migration #complicates (0.70)