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 – ...

Cattlemen’s Association and the Union County Museum Society. Local cattle rancher Sharon Beck, who has been involved with the Cattlemen’s Association for 40-some years, said that the original U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...