How did the cattle industry boom affect the economy of the West?

high school level

People were settling more and more in the western areas, especially around the civil war and after it. The cattle boom was important because it provided food for the area as well as things like leather. The west started developing fast because the people who settled it got large areas of land where a lot of cattle could be grown which only made everyone richer. When trains started spreading it was made possible to quickly transport cattle related goods towards the east.