Groups representing the historic American cattle drives have pledged to work together to promote the valuable role of the cattle drives in the history of the Old West. On Nov. 1, in Dodge City, Kansas ...

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 – ...

Long before ranches and homesteads existed on the frontier, cowboys drove longhorns and horses all the way from Matamoros, Mexico, to open-ranges in the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana Dakota territories ...

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 ...

It’s likely very few of the cowboys who drove an estimated 9 million head of cattle along the Chisholm Trail ever called it by that name, according to Robert Oliver, chairman of the Chisholm Trail ...

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 ...

The Great Western Cattle Trail was the last of the big three to move thousands of longhorns from Texas to markets to the north. It was the most traveled and became known as the most famous. Sometimes ...

The Great Western Cattle Trail was used during the late 19th century for movement of cattle and horses to markets in eastern and northern states. North Dakota Great Western Trail Chair Darrell Dorgan ...