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xli, 516 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 31 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-500) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Comment on roadside trail markers & monuments -- Chronology of events: 1836-1897 -- Terms the reader needs to know -- Part I. One Brief Lifetime : The Four Texas Trail Systems and the Texas Fever -- A search for an outlet -- The Shawnee Trail System, 1846-1875 -- The Goodnight Trail System, 1866-1885 -- The Eastern/Chisholm Trail System, 1867-1889 -- The Western Trail System, 1874-1897 -- Part II. The Western Cattle Trail and its Feeder and Splinter Routes before the 1885 Kansas Quarantine -- The Western Trail in Texas, the staging area, and its feeder routes in southwest and central Texas -- Fort Griffin, Texas -- North to Doan's Crossing and the Red River -- Indian Territory : military forts, feeder and splinter routes -- Kansas homesteaders & Kansas quarantines -- Destination : Ogallala, Nebraska and two splinter routes -- The Western Cattle Trail, from Ogallala to Canada and more splinter routes -- Part III. The Re-Emergence of the Cattle Trailing Industry via the National Trail and the Texas-Montana Feeder Route to the Western Cattle Trail, 1885-1897 -- Change and turmoil brews in the cattle-trailing industry -- No Man's Land & the National Trail, 1885-1887 -- The Texas-Montana feeder route (1884-1897) and the end of the cattle-trailing industry -- "It ain't never goin' to be like it used to be." |
| Summary |
Since 1967, the authors have had one mission: to tell readers exactly where the Western Cattle Trail was located and to give a history of its place in the American West. Their first book, The Western, the greatest cattle trail, 1874-1886, presented the location and history of the trunk line during that time period. In this second volume, the entire trunk line is presented from Texas to Canada, showing its route before and after the Kansas quarantine of 1885, plus a discussion of the system's feeder, detour, and splinter routes. The project encompasses the history that surrounds the trail. Included in this tale are the trail's cattle towns, river crossings, cowboy and homesteader comments, the Texas cattle fever, quarantine lines, herd laws, and Indian encounters. What emerges is an overall picture of the cattle-driving industry from its conception in the 1840s on the first trail system going north, the Shawnee, to its demise in 1897 on the Western Trail System. |
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Author 01.2017 PARS |
| Subject |
Cattle trails -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Cattle trade -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
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Texas Cattle Trail.
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| Added Author |
Kraisinger, Margaret, 1941- author.
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McMurtry, Robby, 1950- illustrator.
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| ISBN |
0975482815 |
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9780975482810 |
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