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The Old Chisholm Trail
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Author : Wayne Ludwig
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-05
The Old Chisholm Trail written by Wayne Ludwig and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-05 with History categories.
The Old Chisholm Trail charts the evolution of the major Texas cattle trails, explores the rise of the Chisholm Trail in legend and lore, and analyzes the role of cattle trail tourism long after the end of the trail driving era itself. The result of years of original and innovative research—often using documents and sources unavailable to previous generations of historians—Wayne Ludwig’s groundbreaking study offers a new and nuanced look at an important but short-lived era in the history of the American West. Controversy over the name and route of the Chisholm Trail has persisted since before the dust had even settled on the old cattle trails. But the popularity of late nineteenth-century Wild West shows, dime novels, and twentieth-century radio, movie, and television western drama propelled the already bygone era of the cattle trail into myth—and a lucrative one at that. Ludwig correlates the rise of automobile tourism with an explosion of interest in the Chisholm Trail. Community leaders were keenly aware of the potential economic impact if tourists were induced to visit their town rather than another, and the Chisholm Trail was often just the hook needed. Numerous “historical” markers were erected on little more than hearsay or boosterish memory, and as a result, the true history of the Chisholm Trail has been overshadowed. The Old Chisholm Trail is the first comprehensive examination of the Chisholm Trail since Wayne Gard’s 1954 classic study, The Chisholm Trail, and makes an important—and modern—contribution to the history of the American West. Winner, 2018 Elmer Kelton Book of the Year, sponsored by the Academy of Western Artists
The Old Chisholm Trail
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Author : Rosalyn Schanzer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Old Chisholm Trail written by Rosalyn Schanzer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
An illustrated version of the legendary song whose many verses were made up by cowboys while herding cattle on the Chisholm Trail.
A Bride On The Old Chisholm Trail In 1886
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Author : Mary Taylor Bunton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
A Bride On The Old Chisholm Trail In 1886 written by Mary Taylor Bunton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Chisholm Trail categories.
When Mrs. Bunton was a young bride, she took great pleasure in going to her husband's ranch, after their honeymoon to Northern and Eastern points was over, and in reveling in the adventures of ranch life. The prairie dogs objected vociferously to the swish of her silk petticoats, but not any more vehemently than did the more old-fashioned cattlemen and their wives to the first ladies' riding breeches which they had seen--and which Mrs. Bunton wore courageously and delightedly. when news came to the Bunton's Nolan County ranch, near Sweetwater, Texas, that the herds of cattle which Mr. Bunton was sending up to norther and western markets were ready for the trail, but that the general herd boss was stricken with sore eyes, Mr. Bunton could find no one to take the lead--except himself. Mrs. Bunton was determined to go too, and go she did, although the warnings and protests were great. Along the trip, made vivid by many adventures, she won the admiration and approval of cowboys, and upon their arrival at Coolidge, Kansas, the cattlemen proclaimed the young bride "Queen of the Old Chisholm Trail."--Jacket flap
The Chisholm Trail
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Author : Sam P. Ridings
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-04-21
The Chisholm Trail written by Sam P. Ridings and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-21 with History categories.
This frontier classic is one of the best books written about the world’s greatest cattle trail, the Chisholm Trail, a trail that was approximately eight hundred miles long, running from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas. It is a comprehensive book about the cattle drives of our western frontier and the interesting characters associated with them. Such characters include Charles Goodnight, Charles A. Siringo, Joseph G. McCoy and various Indian Chiefs and gunslingers. After the Civil War, many cattlemen saw that there was money to be made in moving cattle northward. Joseph G. McCoy built shipping pens at Abilene, which became known as the terminating point of the Chisholm Trail. When the trial was most active, millions of cattle and mustang accompanied their drivers on the two to three month journey that it took to travel across. This book is the story of those cattle and their drivers, who fought through Indian ambushes, stampedes and cattle rustlers. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Cowboy Songs And Other Frontier Ballads
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Author : John Avery Lomax
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1918
Cowboy Songs And Other Frontier Ballads written by John Avery Lomax and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1918 with Ballads, American categories.
Miracle Of The Chisholm Trail
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Author : Henry B. Jameson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Miracle Of The Chisholm Trail written by Henry B. Jameson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Abilene (Kan.) categories.
"The Chisholm trail, which came into being as an interstate route in 1867, was the greatest cattle road the world has ever known. It uncorked the economy of an entire nation after the Civil war, started many towns and cities and turned a log cabin village at the end of the trail into the rip-roaring first cattle capital of the west (Abilene, Kansas)."--The back of the booklet
The Chisholm Trail In American History
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Author : William Reynolds Sanford
language : en
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
Release Date : 2000
The Chisholm Trail In American History written by William Reynolds Sanford and has been published by Enslow Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Presents the history of the trail which became the main route for the Texas cattle trade after the Civil War.
The Chisholm Trail
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Author : James E. Sherow
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2018-09-27
The Chisholm Trail written by James E. Sherow and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of Texas Longhorns coming up the Chisholm Trail—and the youngest brother, Joseph, saw how a middleman could become wealthy in the process. This is the story of how that gamble paid off, transforming the cattle trade and, with it, the American landscape and diet. The Chisholm Trail follows McCoy’s vision and the effects of the Chisholm Trail from post–Civil War Texas and Kansas to the multimillion-dollar beef industry that remade the Great Plains, the American diet, and the national and international beef trade. At every step, both nature and humanity put roadblocks in McCoy’s way. Texas cattle fever had dampened the appetite for longhorns, while prairie fires, thunderstorms, blizzards, droughts, and floods roiled the land. Unscrupulous railroad managers, stiff competition from other brokers, Indians who resented the usurping of their grasslands, and farmers who preferred growing wheat to raising cattle all threatened to impede the McCoys’ vision for the trail. As author James E. Sherow shows, by confronting these obstacles, McCoy put his own stamp upon the land, and on eating habits as far away as New York City and London. Joseph McCoy’s enterprise forged links between cattlemen, entrepreneurs, and restaurateurs; between ecology, disease, and technology; and between local, national, and international markets. Tracing these connections, The Chisholm Trail shows in vivid terms how a gamble made in the face of uncontrollable natural factors indelibly changed the environment, reshaped the Kansas prairie into the nation’s stockyard, and transformed Plains Indian hunting grounds into the hub of a domestic farm culture.
The Chisholm Trail
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Author : Wayne Gard
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1979-04-01
The Chisholm Trail written by Wayne Gard and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-04-01 with History categories.
Presents a history of the route which became the "Main Street" of the Texas cattle trade after the Civil War and remained until after its closing in 1884
The Chisholm Trail
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Author : Ralph Compton
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date : 1993-04-15
The Chisholm Trail written by Ralph Compton and has been published by St. Martin's Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-04-15 with Fiction categories.
Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm—the bold, illegitimate son of frontier scout and plains ambassador Jesse Chisholm and a Cherokee woman—arrives in the heart of Comanche country with a price on his head. His only crime: loving the beautiful daughter of a powerful New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates. Now that Ten has returned to the harsh Texas brakes with a team of battle-toughened cowboys and ex-soldiers—and a vow to return to Priscilla and make her his wife—he must round up wild longhorns, ward off angry Comanches, and survive treacherous outlaw attacks as he crosses the Red River and sets off on a brazen quest to open a new trail to Kansas on the savage frontier.