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  2. Cattle drives in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Nelson Story - Wikipedia

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    Nelson Story Sr. (April 4, 1838 – March 10, 1926) was a pioneer Montana entrepreneur, cattle rancher, miner and vigilante, who was a notable resident of Bozeman, Montana. He was best known for his 1866 cattle drive from Texas with approximately 1000 head of Texas Longhorns [1] to Montana along the Bozeman Trail —the first major cattle drive ...

  4. Bozeman Trail - Wikipedia

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    National Park Service. The Bozeman Trail was an overland route in the Western United States, connecting the gold rush territory of southern Montana to the Oregon Trail in eastern Wyoming. Its important period was from 1863 to 1868. While the major part of the route used by Bozeman Trail travelers in 1864 was pioneered by Allen Hurlbut, it was ...

  5. Great Western Cattle Trail - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Roundup, Montana - Wikipedia

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    It was the trailhead in the Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive, [5] and now drives happen annually. The post office opened in 1883. [6] In 1907, the Milwaukee Road reached Roundup. From Hell to Breakfast in Old Montana, by Leland Blanchard, tells the story of pioneers who lived and worked in Roundup in the early 1900s. [7]

  7. Grant–Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    The Grant–Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, created in 1972, commemorates the Western cattle industry from its 1850s inception through recent times. The original ranch was established in 1862 by a Canadian fur trader, Johnny Grant, at Cottonwood Creek, Montana (future site of Deer Lodge, Montana), along the banks of the Clark Fork river.

  8. Lonesome Dove - Wikipedia

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    Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series and the third installment in the series chronologically. It was a bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1989, it was adapted as a TV miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, which ...

  9. Charles Goodnight - Wikipedia

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    Williams. Goodnight (ca. 1880) Charles Goodnight (March 5, 1836 – December 12, 1929), also known as Charlie Goodnight, was a rancher in the American West. [1] In 1955, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. [2]

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