Cattlemen’s Association and the Union County Museum Society. Local cattle rancher Sharon Beck, who has been involved with the Cattlemen’s Association for 40-some years, said that the original U.S.

Long before ranches and homesteads existed on the frontier, cowboys drove longhorns and horses all the way from Matamoros, Mexico, to open-ranges in the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana Dakota territories ...

A closer look at the skilled Black riders, ropers, and trail hands who shaped the frontier long before Hollywood rewrote the narrative. The image of the American cowboy has long been filtered through ...

The Chisholm Trail, for example, was more than 1,000 miles. There were four Texas-based cattle trails--the Shawnee Trail System, the Goodnight Trail, the Eastern/Chisholm Trail System, and the Western ...

One of the great mythos of the Great Plains is the cattle drive of the American West. The cattle drive holds a special place in the mythos of the Great Plains and the American West. In this episode we ...

This photograph depicts a cattle drive en route for the Kansas Pacific Railway. History enthusiasts are supporting plans to place the Chisholm and Western trails in the National Historic Trails system ...

The Great Western Cattle Trail was used during the late 19th century for movement of cattle and horses to markets in eastern and northern states. North Dakota Great Western Trail Chair Darrell Dorgan ...