Description
The big Texas-to-Kansas trail drives in the openrange era that followed the Civil War gave birth to the cowboy and helped to establish Kansas as one of the premier cattle-raising states in the nation. From 1866 to 1885, over six million longhorns made their way north.
Recommended Citation
Hoy, Jim (2011). "Early Day Cattle Drives," Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal. https://newprairiepress.org/sfh/2011/nature/2
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Early Day Cattle Drives
The big Texas-to-Kansas trail drives in the openrange era that followed the Civil War gave birth to the cowboy and helped to establish Kansas as one of the premier cattle-raising states in the nation. From 1866 to 1885, over six million longhorns made their way north.
