A number of Colorado municipalities use goat herds to provide weed control and fire mitigation on open space lands.

The Idaho gearmaking community, though geographically dispersed, is tightly knit through multigenerational family ties, ...

Everyone who's read Larry McMurtry's masterpiece remembers Joshua Deets. How many people know the amazing life story of his ...

3 great Bay Area dog hikes ... a 5-year-old cattle dog with 5-month-old energy, ... take the path on the left and you’ll find your way up the western side of the Ridge Top 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 ...

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.

the cattle drives of 1878.; DODGE CITY, THE GREAT SHIPPING POINT. A LIVELY PLACE ON THE PLAINS--AN ENORMOUS NUMBER OF CATTLE ON THE TRAIL--THE EXTENT OF THE WESTERN BEEF TRADE--RAILROAD RATES.

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.

Aylin Moreno, 5, watches the Western Heritage parade & cattle drive which kick- offs the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024 in San Antonio.

The herd of Texas Longhorn cattle, belonging to the Searle Ranch, lead the annual National Western Stock Show parade as it makes it’s way up 17th Avenue on January 7, 2016 in Denver, Colorado.

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.

As a nod to the old trail days, 20 longhorn cattle walk right through the middle of the base. One of the Air Force planners of this year’s drive was Silvi, a cowboy from Houston turned C-1235 ...