Chisholm Trail : High Road of the Cattle Kingdom (1980)

by Donald Emmet Worcester

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Discusses the cattle drives which went from Texas to the railheads at Abilene, following the wagon tracks laid across Indian territory by the CherokeeScot trader, Jesse Chisholm.

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Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA

Fort Worth, Texas, USA

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Preface -- Although the Chisholm Trail was open for less than two decades, millions of cattle traveled north over it. More than any of the other trails from Texas, it was the major route of cattle and horses, cowboys and cowmen, to Kansas railheads as well as the new ranches springing up all over the former ranges of the buffalo and the Plains Indians between 1867 and the Big Die-up of 1886-87.

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Discusses the cattle drives which went from Texas to the railheads at Abilene, following the wagon tracks laid across Indian territory by the CherokeeScot trader, Jesse Chisholm.

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Cowboys on half broke mustang cow ponies in the 1870s brought cattle on the Chisholm trail led by trail bosses, followed by chuck wagons, growing into ranches. One huge drive in 1884 by the Pryor brothers to Ogallala, Nebraska with 45,000 South Texas longhorns made a profit of $130,000.

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