Abstract

The big Texas-to-Kansas trail drives in the openrange era that followed the Civil War gave birth to the cowboy and helped to establish Kansas as one of the premier cattle-raising states in the nation. From 1866 to 1885, over six million longhorns made their way north.

Keywords:

• Longhorns,
• Civil War,
• cowboy,
• cattle,
• Texas,
• Flint Hills,
• Fort Worth,
• Dallas,
• Baxter Springs,
• Edward Piper,
• Kansas City,
• Sedalia,
• St. Louis,
• Cottonwood Falls,
• Elisha Mardin,
• Sutter's Mill,
• Chisholm Trail,
• Dolby Brothers Drovers and Livestock,
• Chase County,
• trails