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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 ...
Congressional district. 3rd. Caddo County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,945. [1] Its county seat is Anadarko. [2] Created in 1901 as part of Oklahoma Territory, the county is named for the Caddo tribe who were settled here on a reservation in the 1870s.
A cattle grid on a country road in the Yorkshire Dales Cattle grid on a railway line in northeastern New Mexico Cattle grid in Galong, Australia. A cattle grid – also known as a stock grid in Australia; cattle guard, or cattle grate in American English; vehicle pass, or stock gap in the Southeastern United States; [1] Texas gate in western Canada and the northwestern United States; [2] and a ...
Designated NHLD. May 15, 1975 [2][3] The Miller Brothers 101 Ranch was a 110,000-acre (45,000 ha) cattle ranch in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma before statehood. Located near modern-day Ponca City, it was founded by Colonel George Washington Miller, a veteran of the Confederate Army, in 1893. [4] The 101 Ranch was the birthplace of the 101 ...
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 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 ...
Cherokee Trail near Fort Collins, Colorado, from a sketch taken 7 June 1859. The Cherokee Trail was a historic overland trail through the present-day U.S. states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming that was used from the late 1840s up through the early 1890s. The route was established in 1849 by a wagon train headed to the gold fields in ...
Woodward is the principal center of trade for Northwest Oklahoma and a ten-county region including counties in Kansas and Texas. It serves a trade area of greater than 50,000 people. Agriculture, petroleum, wind energy, and manufacturing all contribute to Woodward's economy.