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'Degree of permanence': Great Western Cattle Trail marked with obelisks to preserve western heritage
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 ...
The annual meeting of the Great Western Cattle Trail (GWCT) Association, which includes nine states from Texas in the South to Montana in the North, was held this summer at the High Plains Western ...
The trail had many names as it moved north 2,000 miles. Unobstructed grasslands provided passage for the Great Western for some 19 years, 1874-93, that cattle trailers used it.
If you follow the white posts, they'll all say, great Western Cattle Trail. But the probably, to be honest with you, the most common name you would find on those old markers was Texas cattle trail.
On Nov. 1, in Dodge City, Kansas, representatives of the Chisholm Trail, Western Cattle Trail Association, Great Western Cattle Trail, Goodnight-Loving Trail and the Shawnee Trail signed a joint ...
Millions of Longhorns once clattered through Bandera, prodded by whooping cowboys as they headed to markets up north via the Great Western Cattle Trail, starting around 1874.
KEARNEY — Kansas authors and The Great Western Cattle Trail experts Gary and Margaret Kraisinger will speak at University of Nebraska at Kearney as part of National Geography Awareness Week.
Singers Joan Wells and Kris Simon will deliver an entertaining living history performance about cattle drives and the origin of country music at 2 p.m. Apr. 2 at the Betty ...
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 ...
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