THE CHISHOLM TRAIL
For more than a dozen tempestuous years, beginning in 1867, the Chisholm Trail was the Texas cowhand's road to high adventure. It held the excitement of sudden stampedes, hazardous river crossing, and brushes with Indian marauders. It promised, at the end of the drive, hillarious celebration in the saloons, gambling parlors, and dance halls of frontier Kansas towns.
I woke up one moring on the old Chishlom Trail,For others the Chisholm Trail meant more than rousing experiences. It carried what probably was the greatest migration of domistic animals in world history. In a period when Texas still lacked railroads for shipping its surplus cattle to northern markets, the trail to Kansas served an urgent need. This pathway, which took the imprints of several million Longhorns, helped Texas dig herself out of the proverty that followed the Civil War. It also spurred railroad construction in the West and the Southwest. --From the Foreword
Rope in my hand and a cow by the tail.
Feet in the stirrups and seat in the saddle,
I hung and rattled with them Longhorn cattle.
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Gard, Wayne.
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