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Author : Jesse Wallace Williams
Release : 1979
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Old Texas Trails by : Jesse Wallace Williams
Download or read book Old Texas Trails written by Jesse Wallace Williams. This book was released on 1979. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOTE: for book to these maps see CCF 434092, call number US/CAN 976.4 E3w.
Author : Wayne Ludwig
Release : 2018-09-04
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Old Chisholm Trail by : Wayne Ludwig
Download or read book The Old Chisholm Trail written by Wayne Ludwig. This book was released on 2018-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : William J. Sheffield
Release : 2002
Genre : Historic sites
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Book Rating : 507/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Historic Texas Trails by : William J. Sheffield
Download or read book Historic Texas Trails written by William J. Sheffield. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the location of eight historic Texas trails and how to trace them today. Maps locating the trails and trace routes. Trails include the Great Comanche War Trail; Sam Houston's Retreat route; Frederick Olmsted's Route across Texas in 1854; the Butterfield Overland Mail route across Texas; the Goodnight-Loving Trail in Texas; the Western Trail in Texas. Brief history is given for each trail. Information is given on towns and travel accommodations along the routes.
Author : James Frank Dobie
Release : 1955
Genre : African American cowboys
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Book Synopsis Up the Trail from Texas by : James Frank Dobie
Download or read book Up the Trail from Texas written by James Frank Dobie. This book was released on 1955. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboys who drove herds of Texas cattle up the Chisholm Trail have interested readers, both young and old, for more than seventy-five years. Now the true story of trail-driving has been written by J. Frank Dobie, authority on the history and tradition of range life in the West. In the period following the Civil War, longhorns were driven north by the hundreds of thousands each year to be sold in rollicky cow towns and to stock vast ranges taken from the buffaloes. Indians, scarcity of water, floods, lightning, stampedes--these were only some of the dangers confronting trail drivers. There were no fences. Grass was free--and so was life. Among the characters in the book are Joseph G. McCoy, who established the first cattle market in Abilene, Kansas--terminus of the Chisholm Trail Walter Billingsley, who bossed "the biggest trail herd" for mighty King Ranch; and Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving, who blazed a trail to New Mexico. When he was young, Mr. Dobie knew many old-time trail drivers and took down their stories. Here he gives them, along with a wealth of information and anecdotes concerning the remuda men, chuck wagon cooks, trail bosses, cow horses, bell mares, longhorned steers and other types of trail-driving history. Here is the real story of the real cowboy of the old West at the peak of his career -- Book jacket.
Author : James Collett
Release : 2021-08-16
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 925/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Old Spanish Trail Highway in Texas, The by : James Collett
Download or read book Old Spanish Trail Highway in Texas, The written by James Collett. This book was released on 2021-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of automobile travel in the United States, visionary entrepreneurs proposed a Southern transcontinental route called the Old Spanish Trail (OST) that would stretch across eight states from Florida to California. ... native Texas historian James Collett has crafted a book that provides a glimpse into the early years of automobile tourism along the Texas stretch of the OST.
