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1873 Map of Chisholm Trail with Subsidiary Trails in Texas (from Kansas Historical Society). 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.
Daily cattle drives in the Stockyards are brief, but there’s a whole day’s worth of work that goes into bringing this piece of Fort Worth history to life.
The city of Fort Worth was nicknamed "Cowtown" shortly after the Civil War, as cowboys stopped for supplies in the town while herding their cattle from South Texas to the Chisholm Trail. After the arrival of the Texas and Pacific Railway in 1876, various business people in the town began erecting stock yards in an effort to become a greater ...
From 1875 until 1880, the Chisholm Trail, also referred to as the Eastern Trail, became a feeder route into the Western Trail. Western Trail feeder routes extended from Brownsville, Texas, through San Antonio, Bandera, Texas, and the Kerrville area. The Red River was crossed at Doan's Crossing. In 1881, Doan noted that the trail reached its ...
Where does the Fort Worth Herd cattle drive occur? The twice-daily cattle drive takes place in the Fort Worth Stockyards on East Exchange Avenue at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.
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Modern day cattle drive, 1987. Smaller cattle drives continued at least into the 1940s, as ranchers, prior to the development of the modern cattle truck, still needed to herd cattle to local railheads for transport to stockyards and packing plants. Today, cattle drives are primarily used to round up cattle within the boundaries of a ranch and ...
Guests walk over cattle pens for the Fort Worth Herd On Friday, June 7, at the Fort Worth Stockyards. The city is proposing nearly $1 billion in new development, to include improvements to ...