Pair honored for tracing Chisholm Trail The Chisholm Trail once provided a path for 6 million to 8 million head of Texas cattle to travel north to Kansas, where the railroad awaited to carry them ...

This year, 2017, marks the Chisholm Trail’s 150th anniversary. The Chisholm Trail is the greatest migration of livestock in world history that relocated cattle from South Texas through Oklahoma ...

More than 2.5 million cattle traveled the trail to Abilene, said Michael Hook, director of the Dickinson County Heritage Center. That included about 650,000 head during the trail’s biggest year ...

On April 28, 1874, the Denison, Texas, Daily News mentioned cattle going up "the famous Chisholm Trail." The trail drives started from various points and led up to San Antonio, Austin, and Waco ...

More than 14 million head of longhorn cattle were driven up the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Abilene during a five year span from 1867 to 1872.

It was heavily traveled and, between 1867 and 1884, it carried 5 million head of cattle and a million horses from Texas to Kansas, thought to be the largest movement of livestock in world history ...

The Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum in Cuero digs up the roots of the famous cattle trail. At the end of the Civil War, between 3 million and 6 million herds of cattle roamed the South Texas plains ...

The Chisholm Trail put Fort Worth on the map. ... The cattle drives generated 24 million dollars for the Texas economy, and made cattle barons out of ranchers.

Between 1867 and 1887, more than six million, wild longhorn cattle known as "Texas Gold" were driven from South Texas to the cattle markets in the North on what became the infamous Chisholm Trail.

It also is where the Chisholm Trail entered Kansas. In the late 1800s, cowboys drove two million cattle along the trail from Texas to railroad towns in Kansas.

Kansas hosts Chisholm trail cattle drive. Head’em up and move-em out. From September 10 to October 5, 2007, the Chisholm Trail Cattle Drive, in commemoration of Oklahoma’s Centennial and the 140th ...

For the next several months, Kansas cities along the Chisholm Trail will celebrate the trail’s 150th anniversary. More than 2.5 million cattle traveled the trail to Abilene, ...