Reviews for The Chisholm Trail

The average rating for The Chisholm Trail based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-09-29 00:00:00 Will Jamaur This book is about the Chisholm Trail. For more than 12 years starting in 1867 the trail was the cowboys road to high adventure. They suffered through the elements, stampedes, swollen rivers, and Indian attacks. At the end of the cattle drive they would celebrate in saloons in frontier Kansas towns. This trail carried the greatest migration of domestic animals in world history. It spurred railroad growth for them to deliver their cattle to Dodge City, Kansas. This is another book where misinformation needs sorting out. The trail only went a certain way not all of the 254 counties. I have been to Dodge City and seen the huge ranches where these cattle are taken to.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-18 00:00:00 John Conner After the American Civil War Texas was short of money but had plenty of cattle worth almost nothing and numerous unemployed men. The East needed beef and so Texans started driving herds of longhorns to railroads in Kansas for shipment East. Freight charges from transpiring the longhorns helped finance constructing the rails westward. Legend has it that the Chisholm trail followed the wagon ruts of an Indian trader named Jesse Chisholm.