Cattle drives were as much a part of South Texas lore in the 19th century as the prickly pear patches of nopal and mesquite groves. After the Civil War, a variety of cattle trails evolved as ranchers ...

On this date 150 years ago O.W. Wheeler and his partners began driving 2,400 head of cattle they’d just bought in San Antonio toward sale markets in Abilene along some wagon tracks they just ran ...

The month of July, 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of the first cattle drive up the Chisholm Trail from the Lone Star State to the Union Pacific Railroad shipping center at Abilene, Kansas. More than ...

FORT WORTH -- It's been somewhere close to a century since the last gangly longhorn trod from Texas to Kansas, but the argument over what to call the path he followed still rages. Now more kindling ...

I am doing some research for my wife, Patricia Eytcheson Taylor, who has published 25 books for children and is writing another children’s book. I am trying to find where the Chisholm Trail actually ...

It’s not like in the old days when saddle-worn cowboys, bone-weary horses and dirt-tired cattle walked endlessly along the Chisholm Trail. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Chisholm Trail – ...

The early trails. -- The Osage trace. -- The Texas road. -- War on the Texas road. -- The Texas fever scourge. -- The longhorns leave the Teas Road. -- The longhorn and the mustang. -- The Chisholm ...

It was 1867 in post-Civil War Texas; the economy was in a major recession following the war and Texas was cattle rich, but poor in marketing opportunities as the railroads had not yet reached the ...