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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| Other title: | How Texas cowboys herded longhorns and became an American icon. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | How things worked.
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Table of Contents:
- How cowboys and longhorns came to Texas
- How the cattle market boomed and busted
- How to organize the largest, longest cattle drive ever
- How Kansas survived the longhorn invasion
- How the trails died and the cowboy lived on.