Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A modern small-scale cattle drive in New Mexico. Cattle drives were a major economic activity in the 19th and early 20th century American West, particularly between 1850s and 1910s. In this period, 27 million cattle were driven from Texas to railheads in Kansas, for shipment to stockyards in St. Louis and points east, and direct to Chicago.
The Great Western Cattle Trail is the name used today for a cattle trail established during the late 19th century for moving beef stock and horses to markets in eastern and northern states. It ran west of and roughly parallel to the better known Chisholm Trail into Kansas, reaching an additional major railhead there for shipping beef to Chicago ...
Goodnight–Loving Trail. The Goodnight–Loving Trail is the westernmost on this Western cattle trail map. The Goodnight–Loving Trail was a trail used in the cattle drives of the late 1860s for the large-scale movement of Texas Longhorns. It is named after cattlemen Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving.
Tom Candy Ponting. Tom Candy Ponting (August 26, 1824 - October 11, 1916) was an American rancher, farmer and cattle driver. [1] In 1853–1854, together with his business partner, Washington Malone, they were the first people to drive a herd of Texas Longhorn cattle from Texas to New York City, the longest cattle drive in American history.
Red River trailer. Red River is a 1948 American Western film, directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. It gives a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. The dramatic tension stems from a growing feud over the management of the drive between the Texas ...
The Chisholm Trail (/ˈt͡ʃɪzəm/ CHIZ-əm) was a trail used in the post- Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in southern Texas, crossed the Red River into Indian Territory, and ended at Kansas rail stops. The trail encompassed a pathway established by Black Beaver in 1861, and a wagon road established by Jesse Chisholm around ...
Droving is the practice of walking livestock over long distances. It is a type of herding, often associated with cattle, in which case it is a cattle drive (particularly in the US). Droving stock to market—usually on foot and often with the aid of dogs —has a very long history. An owner might entrust an agent to deliver stock to market and ...
The Herd Quitter by C. M. Russell. A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks. Cattle drives ensure the herds' health in finding pasture and bring them to market. The historic American cowboy of the late 19th century arose ...