The Chisholm Trail

by Wayne Gard, Nick Eggenhofer (Drawings)

For more than a dozen tempestuous years, beginning in 1867, the Chisholm Trail was the Texas cowhand’s road to high adventure. It offered the excitement of sudden stampedes, hazardous river crossings, and brushes with Indian marauders. It promised, at the end of the drive, hilarious celebrations in the saloons, gambling parlors, and dance halls of frontier Kansas towns. The account that appears on these pages reveals the courage, daring, and enterprise of the cattle owners and their cowboys, establishing them firmly as heroes in the westward expansion.

Genres: History

308 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1954

Reviews

[Roxanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is about the Chisholm Trail. For more than 12 years starting in 1867 the trail was the cowboys road to high adventure. They suffered through the elements, stampedes, swollen rivers, and Indian attacks. At the end of the cattle drive they would celebrate in saloons in frontier Kansas towns. This trail carried the greatest migration of domestic animals in world history. It spurred railroad growth for them to deliver their cattle to Dodge City, Kansas. This is another book where misinformation needs sorting out. The trail only went a certain way not all of the 254 counties. I have been to Dodge City and seen the huge ranches where these cattle are taken to.

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 3 out of 5]

After the American Civil War Texas was short of money but had plenty of cattle worth almost nothing and numerous unemployed men. The East needed beef and so Texans started driving herds of longhorns to railroads in Kansas for shipment East. Freight charges from transpiring the longhorns helped finance constructing the rails westward. Legend has it that the Chisholm trail followed the wagon ruts of an Indian trader named Jesse Chisholm.

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