On this date 150 years ago O.W. Wheeler and his partners began driving 2,400 head of cattle they’d just bought in San Antonio toward sale markets in Abilene along some wagon tracks they just ran ...
The event, held Friday, May 8, and Saturday, May 9, took place behind the Gin at Nolan Creek and commemorated 175 years of ...
Cattle drives were as much a part of South Texas lore in the 19th century as the prickly pear patches of nopal and mesquite groves. After the Civil War, a variety of cattle trails evolved as ranchers ...
The northbound County Road 913 exit ramp on the Chisholm Trail Parkway will be closed from March 10 to March 17. This closure is part of the Chisholm Trail Parkway Widening Project and is needed to ...
Did the famous Chisholm Trail ever really exist in Texas, or was that name just applied generically to the various cattle trails that led from Texas to Kansas? Evidently, historians have been debating ...
FORT WORTH (CBS11) - The Cowtown culture that defines Fort Worth today dates back 150 years -- to a time before the Stockyards developed. The Chisholm Trail put Fort Worth on the map. Glancing around ...