Cottonwood Connections • The Western Cattle Trail
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- The cattle drive holds a special place in the mythos of the Great Plains and the American West. In this episode we will explore the legends and the realities of the Western Trail that spanned from Texas, north through western Kansas and on to Canada.
Featured guests include Gary and Margaret Kraisinger, authors of The Western Cattle Trail 1874-1897: It’s Rise, Collapse and Revival. For more about the Kraisingers, their books and maps visit www.westerncattletrail.net
Very well done
great video
This sounds like description of the "Chisholm Trail. There is a much longer trail called the "Western Trail" which ran from Mexico through Texas and other northern states to Canada. They ran 7,000,000 cattle. That trail described by markers along the trail as "The Great Western Cattle Trail. It is called the Western Cattle trail in Wyoming only. Read the book "Finding the Great Western Trail" by Sylvia Mahoney.