| Description |
ix, 134 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 27 cm + 1 map (48 x 38 cm) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-126) and indexes. |
| Contents |
A brief history of Texas cattle trailing before 1867 -- Joseph G. McCoy to the rescue, Abilene, Kansas - 1867 -- False assumptions surrounding the Red River Station route and how earlier historians and scholars presented the trail to Abilene, Kansas -- The Shawnee-Arbuckle Trail in Texas to the Red River -- Three Red River crossings to reach Fort Arbuckle and the trail north of the Red River -- The trail moves west in Indian territory, the "Abilene Trail" - 1870 -- A review and concluding remarks about the Shawnee-Arbuckle Trail and the Chisholm Trail in Indian territory. |
| Summary |
In June of 1867, Joseph McCoy, an experiened cattle shipper and promoter, arrived in Kansas from Illinois to explore the possibility of creating a cattle railhead for Texas herds...Abilene became a terminus for Texas longhorns and their drovers on the Chisholm Trail. Contemporary cattle-trail maps showthe route to Abilene coming out of South Texas, crossing the Red River at Red River Station between Texas and Indian Territory and continuing northward from there to that famous cattle town in Abilene, Kansas. |
| Subject |
McCoy, Joseph G. (Joseph Geiting), 1837-1915.
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Cattle trails.
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Cattle trade.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
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Texas Cattle Trail.
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Chisholm Trail.
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Abilene (Kan.) -- History.
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West (U.S.) -- History.
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| Added Author |
Kraisinger, Margaret, 1941- author.
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| ISBN |
9780975482827 |
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0975482823 |
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