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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

It’s likely very few of the cowboys who drove an estimated 9 million head of cattle along the Chisholm Trail ever called it by that name, according to Robert Oliver, chairman of the Chisholm ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Chisholm Trail was a cattle drive route that ran from San Antonio to Kansas in the post-Civil War era. “What made Fort Worth is the trail drive,” said Steve Myers, Chairman of the Tarrant ...

You can buy a facsimile of "Guide Map of the Great Texas Cattle Trail” for $50. Several of these recommended books on the Chisholm Trail are available for free online.

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, ...