Up the trail : how Texas cowboys herded longhorns and became an American icon / Tim Lehman.

"Few adventures in the American West surpassed the practice, in the years soon after the Civil War, of taking herds of Longhorn cattle from Texas grasslands to Kansas. There, in towns like Abilene, Dodge City, and Wichita, buyers paid off ranchers, ranchers paid off cowboys, and railroad lines...

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Main Author: Lehman, Tim (Author)
Other title:How Texas cowboys herded longhorns and became an American icon.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Series:How things worked.
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