One of the Boys
by Scott Pellegrin
Title
One of the Boys
Artist
Scott Pellegrin
Medium
Photograph
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The cattle industry in Louisiana does not date back quite as far as the cowpunchers in this old song called "The Cowboy," but has its roots in Louisiana's colonial period. Before the entry of Texas to the Union in the mid-1800s, probably the largest cattle raisers in the United States were in Southwest Louisiana.
During the second half of the 1700s, New Orleans misfortune became the Acadians' advantage. New Orleans was experiencing a grave shortage of meat at about the same time as the early Acadians arrival in Louisiana. The Acadians were independent, desirous of settlement where they could re-establish a lifestyle close to that which they had in their homeland. They agreed to raise cattle on shares for Bernard Dauterive in the Attakapas district west of the Atchafalaya.
By 1802, the Louisiana cattle industry was firmly established and the prairies were the main suppliers of beef to New Orleans and points northeast. Many economic hardships, not the least of which were the aftermath of the Civil War, storms, floods, epidemics such as the tick fever in the 1930s and federal regulations imposed during the 1970s on the price of beef, have periodically challenged the industry. Yet ranching has persisted in Louisiana. Improved breeds and intelligent land management have maintained Louisiana as a competitor on the national market.
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