Texas Trails: Pathways of History
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At the end of the Civil War, Texas was poised to enter the golden age of cattle trailing. With an abundance of cattle populating the state and demand rising across the country, cattle ranchers were eager to avoid depressed prices at home and earn much more outside of the state. Before long, a network of trails was established to transport cattle through Texas and across state lines. These trails remained the primary transport routes until the late nineteenth century, when railroad companies took over the transport of cattle.
Follow the journeys of the cattle drivers in Texas Trails: Pathways of History, TSHA's latest free eBook. In this eBook, you can learn more about:
- Some of the major trail routes used by Texas cattle drivers, such as the Chisholm Trail, the Shawnee Trail, and the Western Trail
- Background information about the cattle transported on these trails and how the scourge of Texas Fever impacted the trade
- Minority groups who developed the cattle trailing and ranching industry, such as African American cowboys and the vaqueros
- Some of the prominent cattlemen and women of Texas, including Oliver Loving, Margaret Borland, and Daniel Waggoner
Table of Contents
- Cattle Trailing
- Atascosito Road
- Beef Trail
- Ford and Neighbors Trail
- Shawnee Trail
- Goodnight-Loving Trail
- Western Trail
- Chisholm Trail
- Longhorn Cattle
- Texas Fever
- Cattle brands
- Cattle Rustling
- Black Cowboys
- Vaquero
- José Vázquez Borrego
- Tomás Sánchez de la Barrera y Garza
- Rosa María Hinojosa de Ballí
- James Taylor White
- Oliver Loving
- Jesse Chisholm
- Margaret Borland
- John Hunter Herndon
- John Simpson Chisum
- Richard King
- Mifflin Kenedy
- Abel Head [Shanghai] Pierce
- Daniel Waggoner
- Christopher Columbus Slaughter
- Cornelia Wadsworth Adair
- Henrietta Chamberlain King
- Bose Ikard
- Charles Goodnight
- George Washington Saunders
- Daniel Webster Wallace
- Matthew Hooks
- Southwestern Historical Quarterly Selected Articles
Published: 2017
