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Fort Worth Stockyards

Cowtown's Western-heritage district: twice-daily longhorn cattle drives, a championship rodeo, honky-tonks, and Mule Alley.

Same as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth_Stockyards

Relations:

• PART_OF → Texas & the Southwest
• RELATES_TO → Chisholm Trail
• RELATES_TO → Texas Longhorn

The Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District sits on the North Side of Fort Worth, Texas, centered on East Exchange Avenue, a few blocks removed from the modern skyline it helped finance a century ago.

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Oklahoma National Stockyards

The world's largest stocker and feeder cattle market - the last of the great terminal yards still running, with live auctions and the Stockyards City district.

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• PART_OF → Texas & the Southwest

The Oklahoma National Stockyards Company, known as ONSY, operates at 2501 Exchange Avenue in Oklahoma City's Stockyards City historic district, west of downtown in what was historically called "Packingtown." The market opened in October 1910 and, unlike most of the great terminal livestock markets built in that era, it is still operating today as a working live-auction cattle market, with sales held every Monday and Tuesday rather than existing only as a historic site or museum.

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Union Stock Yards (Chicago)

The most famous stockyards in the world — Chicago's 'Hog Butcher for the World,' the birthplace of industrial meatpacking (1865-1971).

Same as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Stock_Yards

Relations:

• PART_OF → The Midwest & Mississippi Valley
• RELATES_TO → Union Stock Yard Gate
• RELATES_TO → The Jungle

The Union Stock Yard & Transit Company, known simply as the Yards , operated on Chicago's South Side, in the New City neighborhood near Halsted Street between roughly 39th and 47th streets, from Christmas Day, December 25, 1865, until July 30, 1971 — a run of 106 years that made it, for most of that span, the center of American meatpacking.

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Kansas City Stockyards

For a century the nation's second-largest stockyards, in the West Bottoms - home of the American Royal and the Kansas City strip steak.

Same as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Stockyards

Relations:

• PART_OF → The Midwest & Mississippi Valley
• RELATES_TO → American Royal

The Kansas City Stockyards, operated by the Kansas City Stock Yards Company, occupied the West Bottoms of Kansas City in a floodplain where the Kansas (Kaw) River meets the Missouri River. The site was unusual among American terminal markets, meaning a centralized market where livestock from many origins was consolidated, priced, and either sold for slaughter or shipped onward, in that it straddled a state line: roughly two-thirds of the pens sat on the Kansas side of the boundary, with the remainder in Missouri.

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Denver Union Stockyards

The Rocky Mountain region's great cattle hub and, since 1906, home of the National Western Stock Show - still held every January.

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• PART_OF → The Great Plains & Mountain West
• RELATES_TO → National Western Stock Show

The Denver Union Stock Yards, operated by the Denver Union Stock Yard Company, sat along the South Platte River in what is now Denver's Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods, just north of downtown. The company was incorporated in 1881, and the stockyards opened at their permanent north Denver site in 1886.

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Omaha Stockyards

The Union Stockyards of Omaha overtook Chicago in 1955 to become the largest livestock market in the United States.

Same as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Stockyards_(Omaha)

Relations:

• PART_OF → The Great Plains & Mountain West

The Union Stockyards of Omaha, generally known simply as the Omaha Stockyards, operated in South Omaha, Nebraska from 1883 to 1999, a run of 116 years. What sets Omaha apart among America's great terminal markets, meaning centralized points where livestock from many origins was consolidated, priced, and sold, is that it did not merely rank among the largest; in 1955 it overtook Chicago outright to become the largest livestock market and meatpacking center in the entire country, a position it held into the early 1970s.

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Joplin Regional Stockyards

One of the largest cattle auction facilities in the country, aggregating the Ozarks' small herds into truckload lots at its Carthage sale barn.

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• PART_OF → The Midwest & Mississippi Valley

Joplin Regional Stockyards, Inc. sits at Interstate 44 Exit 22 in Carthage, Missouri, just east of Joplin, at the center of an Ozarks region where Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas meet. It is one of the largest livestock auction facilities in the United States and the dominant stocker and feeder cattle market -- young cattle sold to be grown out on grass or in a backgrounding lot before entering a finishing feedyard -- for a four-state area built overwhelmingly on small, family-scale cow-calf operations.

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Bluegrass Stockyards

The largest livestock market east of the Mississippi - rebuilt after a 2016 fire into a working stockyard with shops, dining, and a beef-education center.

Relations:

• PART_OF → The South

Bluegrass Stockyards, LLC in Lexington, Kentucky is the flagship market of the Bluegrass Livestock Marketing Group, a network of stockyards across the state. Located at 4561 Iron Works Pike near the Kentucky Horse Park, it is widely described as the largest livestock market east of the Mississippi River and functions as the marketing backbone of Kentucky's beef-cattle sector -- Kentucky being the largest cattle-producing state east of the Mississippi.

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Sioux City Stockyards

At its peak among the largest livestock markets on earth, moving 3.7 million hogs in a single year before closing in 2002.

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• PART_OF → The Great Plains & Mountain West

The Sioux City Stock Yards, developed by the Union Stock Yards Company of Sioux City and later operated as the Sioux City Stock Yards Company, sat in Sioux City, Iowa, in the tri-state Siouxland region near where the Floyd River meets the Missouri River. The company organized on January 21, 1884, and operations grew into a major complex by the late 1880s, with 1887 commonly cited as the point the yards opened in earnest.

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St. Joseph Stockyards

A major Missouri River terminal market for 134 years (1887-2021) - once the fifth-largest livestock market in the country.

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• PART_OF → The Midwest & Mississippi Valley

The St. Joseph Stock Yards, operated for most of its history by the St. Joseph Stockyards Company along the Missouri River in South St. Joseph, Missouri, holds a distinction among the region's great terminal markets, meaning centralized points where livestock from many origins was consolidated, priced, and sold: longevity. The first formal stockyard on the site dates to 1873, under the earlier Union Stock Yards Company, and the market was reorganized as the St. Joseph Stockyards Company in 1886, opening on more than 440 acres in December 1887.

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National Stock Yards

The St. Louis-area yards and their company town - the mid-century 'Hog Capital of the Nation,' now largely vanished.

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• PART_OF → The Midwest & Mississippi Valley

The St. Louis National Stockyards operated across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri, on a site that became its own incorporated municipality: National City, Illinois, near East St. Louis. The St. Louis National Stock Yards Company was incorporated on November 4, 1872, and the yards opened just over a year later, on November 19, 1873, on roughly 656 acres of former farmland known locally as Gallagher Pastures .

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Superior Livestock Auction

The pioneer of the video cattle auction (since 1987): cattle are filmed on the ranch and sold as load-lots to buyers bidding from anywhere.

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• PART_OF → The Great Plains & Mountain West

Superior Livestock Auction is not a physical stockyard. There is no barn where cattle are penned and paraded past buyers, and no local sale yard defines its territory -- its scope is national. Superior lists offices in Hudson Oaks, Texas; Brush, Colorado; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Eagle, Idaho, with historical roots centered in Brush and a longstanding presence tied to the Fort Worth Stockyards.

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Chisholm Trail

The most famous cattle-drive route, along which millions of Texas Longhorns were driven north to Kansas railheads after the Civil War.

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The most famous cattle-drive route, along which millions of Texas Longhorns were driven north to Kansas railheads after the Civil War.

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Texas Longhorn

The hardy, long-horned cattle breed central to the trail-drive era and to the Fort Worth Herd cattle drive today.

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The hardy, long-horned cattle breed central to the trail-drive era and to the Fort Worth Herd cattle drive today.

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Union Stock Yard Gate

The surviving limestone gate of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, a Chicago Landmark and National Historic Landmark.

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The surviving limestone gate of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, a Chicago Landmark and National Historic Landmark.

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The Jungle

Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel exposing conditions in Chicago's meatpacking district, which spurred federal food-safety law.

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Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel exposing conditions in Chicago's meatpacking district, which spurred federal food-safety law.

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American Royal

The livestock and horse show, rodeo, and barbecue event that grew out of the Kansas City Stockyards, dating to 1899.

Same as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Royal

The livestock and horse show, rodeo, and barbecue event that grew out of the Kansas City Stockyards, dating to 1899.

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National Western Stock Show

The annual Denver stock show and rodeo, held since 1906 at the site of the Denver Union Stockyards.

Same as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Western_Stock_Show

The annual Denver stock show and rodeo, held since 1906 at the site of the Denver Union Stockyards.

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Packers and Stockyards Act

The 1921 federal law regulating the meatpacking and stockyards industry to ensure fair competition.

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The 1921 federal law regulating the meatpacking and stockyards industry to ensure fair competition.

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Historic Stockyards

The historic terminal stockyards and heritage districts of America — Chicago's Union Stock Yards, Fort Worth, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, Sioux City, St. Joseph, and the National Stock Yards.

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• INCLUDES → Fort Worth Stockyards
• INCLUDES → Union Stock Yards (Chicago)
• INCLUDES → Kansas City Stockyards
• INCLUDES → Denver Union Stockyards
• INCLUDES → Omaha Stockyards
• INCLUDES → Sioux City Stockyards
• INCLUDES → St. Joseph Stockyards
• INCLUDES → National Stock Yards

The historic terminal stockyards and heritage districts of America — Chicago's Union Stock Yards, Fort Worth, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, Sioux City, St. Joseph, and the National Stock Yards.

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Working Livestock Markets

America's working cattle markets — the Oklahoma National Stockyards, Joplin Regional, Bluegrass Stockyards, and Superior Livestock Auction.

Relations:

• INCLUDES → Oklahoma National Stockyards
• INCLUDES → Joplin Regional Stockyards
• INCLUDES → Bluegrass Stockyards
• INCLUDES → Superior Livestock Auction

America's working cattle markets — the Oklahoma National Stockyards, Joplin Regional, Bluegrass Stockyards, and Superior Livestock Auction.

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