The Western Cattle Trail 1874 1897

Author : Gary Kraisinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975482810
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Western Cattle Trail, 1874-1897 written by Gary Kraisinger and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1967, the authors have had one mission: to tell readers exactly where the Western Cattle Trail was located and to give a history of its place in the American West. Their first book, The Western, the greatest cattle trail, 1874-1886, presented the location and history of the trunk line during that time period. In this second volume, the entire trunk line is presented from Texas to Canada, showing its route before and after the Kansas quarantine of 1885, plus a discussion of the system's feeder, detour, and splinter routes. The project encompasses the history that surrounds the trail. Included in this tale are the trail's cattle towns, river crossings, cowboy and homesteader comments, the Texas cattle fever, quarantine lines, herd laws, and Indian encounters. What emerges is an overall picture of the cattle-driving industry from its conception in the 1840s on the first trail system going north, the Shawnee, to its demise in 1897 on the Western Trail System.

Author : Gary Kraisinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975482803
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Western written by Gary Kraisinger and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western Cattle Trail stretched from the southern most points of Texas to the Canadian border. It carried more longhorns a longer distance for more years than any other cattle trail. The trek across Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas, Nebraska and beyond required months of hard trail life for the drivers and herds. However, most maps show this trial ending at Dodge City, Kansas.

Author : Sam P. Ridings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258825744
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chisholm Trail written by Sam P. Ridings and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together With A Description Of The Persons, A Narrative Of The Events, And Reminiscences Associated With The Same.

Author : Gary Kraisinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975482827
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shawnee-Arbuckle Cattle Trail 1867-1870 written by Gary Kraisinger and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wayne Ludwig
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623496713
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Chisholm Trail written by Wayne Ludwig and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Chisholm Trail charts the evolution of the major Texas cattle trails, explores the rise of the Chisholm Trail in legend and lore, and analyzes the role of cattle trail tourism long after the end of the trail driving era itself. The result of years of original and innovative research—often using documents and sources unavailable to previous generations of historians—Wayne Ludwig’s groundbreaking study offers a new and nuanced look at an important but short-lived era in the history of the American West. Controversy over the name and route of the Chisholm Trail has persisted since before the dust had even settled on the old cattle trails. But the popularity of late nineteenth-century Wild West shows, dime novels, and twentieth-century radio, movie, and television western drama propelled the already bygone era of the cattle trail into myth—and a lucrative one at that. Ludwig correlates the rise of automobile tourism with an explosion of interest in the Chisholm Trail. Community leaders were keenly aware of the potential economic impact if tourists were induced to visit their town rather than another, and the Chisholm Trail was often just the hook needed. Numerous “historical” markers were erected on little more than hearsay or boosterish memory, and as a result, the true history of the Chisholm Trail has been overshadowed. The Old Chisholm Trail is the first comprehensive examination of the Chisholm Trail since Wayne Gard’s 1954 classic study, The Chisholm Trail, and makes an important—and modern—contribution to the history of the American West. Winner, 2018 Elmer Kelton Book of the Year, sponsored by the Academy of Western Artists​

Author : James E. Sherow
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806162945
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chisholm Trail written by James E. Sherow and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of Texas Longhorns coming up the Chisholm Trail—and the youngest brother, Joseph, saw how a middleman could become wealthy in the process. This is the story of how that gamble paid off, transforming the cattle trade and, with it, the American landscape and diet. The Chisholm Trail follows McCoy’s vision and the effects of the Chisholm Trail from post–Civil War Texas and Kansas to the multimillion-dollar beef industry that remade the Great Plains, the American diet, and the national and international beef trade. At every step, both nature and humanity put roadblocks in McCoy’s way. Texas cattle fever had dampened the appetite for longhorns, while prairie fires, thunderstorms, blizzards, droughts, and floods roiled the land. Unscrupulous railroad managers, stiff competition from other brokers, Indians who resented the usurping of their grasslands, and farmers who preferred growing wheat to raising cattle all threatened to impede the McCoys’ vision for the trail. As author James E. Sherow shows, by confronting these obstacles, McCoy put his own stamp upon the land, and on eating habits as far away as New York City and London. Joseph McCoy’s enterprise forged links between cattlemen, entrepreneurs, and restaurateurs; between ecology, disease, and technology; and between local, national, and international markets. Tracing these connections, The Chisholm Trail shows in vivid terms how a gamble made in the face of uncontrollable natural factors indelibly changed the environment, reshaped the Kansas prairie into the nation’s stockyard, and transformed Plains Indian hunting grounds into the hub of a domestic farm culture.

Author : B. Lois Thieszen Preheim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666703257
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trailing the Schoolchildren's Blizzard written by B. Lois Thieszen Preheim and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of the January 12, 1888 blizzard as experienced by families living in ten locations along the storm’s route. The storm struck suddenly and caught people off guard as it trailed through the Great Plains of Canada, the United States, and Territories. Many found ingenious ways to reach safety and/or pass the time while waiting for the storm to subside. Family stories are capsulized in a poem preceding the ten stand-alone chapters. Tying the chapters together is the common thread of experiencing the storm’s fury. People of all ages will identify with elements of decision-making.

Author : Garnet M. Brayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Cattle Trails, 1540-1900 written by Garnet M. Brayer and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Sylvester Ellis
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781355179740
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Cattle Trail written by Edward Sylvester Ellis and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Wayne Gard
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806115368
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chisholm Trail written by Wayne Gard and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1979-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of the route which became the "Main Street" of the Texas cattle trade after the Civil War and remained until after its closing in 1884