Add to ORKGIntroduction: Oral history tells of a site on the banks of McDowell Creek in northeast Geary (formerly Davis) County called Dead Man’s Gulch. The case was already cold in August 1875 when they first found the body of the dead sheepherder. According to the local newspaper, the cause of death was apparent. Yet a mystery lingered around his death that survived only in rumor and memory, rooted in the history of the rivalry that simmered between farmers and cattlemen. It began with the Chisholm Trail
Introduction: In the late nineteenth century, thousands sought adventure and fortune on the cattle t...
Introduction: In the late nineteenth century, thousands sought adventure and fortune on the cattle t...
Introduction: In 1867 the only thing standing between the prized stock of westward-marching settlers...
Introduction: During the eighteen years that Texas cattle were driven north on the Chisholm Trail, a...
Introduction: It all began with grass, large expanses of unbroken ground that had sustained bison an...
Introduction: The Kansas portion of the Chisholm Trail, located just west of the Flint Hills, ran ro...
Introduction: The nineteenth century created the cattle business, but it also created cattle, or at ...
Introduction: The Chisholm Trail was no one’s idea. No single individual cut a path from Texas to Ka...
Introduction: As the Chisholm trail became the thoroughfare for millions of Texas cattle coming to r...
Introduction: Before the Civil War, most Texas cattle were driven in small herds to markets by their...
Article describes the path of the Chisholm Trail from 1867 to 1871. There were two pathways used by ...
The big Texas-to-Kansas trail drives in the openrange era that followed the Civil War gave birth to ...
The cattle industry of the Flint Hills had its origin along the Rio Grande River nearly four centuri...
For centuries the lush grasses of the Kansas Flint Hills were the domain of the American Bison. But ...
Article examines the case of the 1900 murder of Julius Roesch to describe the attitudes of the time ...
Introduction: In the late nineteenth century, thousands sought adventure and fortune on the cattle t...
Introduction: In the late nineteenth century, thousands sought adventure and fortune on the cattle t...
Introduction: In 1867 the only thing standing between the prized stock of westward-marching settlers...
Introduction: During the eighteen years that Texas cattle were driven north on the Chisholm Trail, a...
Introduction: It all began with grass, large expanses of unbroken ground that had sustained bison an...
Introduction: The Kansas portion of the Chisholm Trail, located just west of the Flint Hills, ran ro...
Introduction: The nineteenth century created the cattle business, but it also created cattle, or at ...
Introduction: The Chisholm Trail was no one’s idea. No single individual cut a path from Texas to Ka...
Introduction: As the Chisholm trail became the thoroughfare for millions of Texas cattle coming to r...
Introduction: Before the Civil War, most Texas cattle were driven in small herds to markets by their...
Article describes the path of the Chisholm Trail from 1867 to 1871. There were two pathways used by ...
The big Texas-to-Kansas trail drives in the openrange era that followed the Civil War gave birth to ...
The cattle industry of the Flint Hills had its origin along the Rio Grande River nearly four centuri...
For centuries the lush grasses of the Kansas Flint Hills were the domain of the American Bison. But ...
Article examines the case of the 1900 murder of Julius Roesch to describe the attitudes of the time ...
Introduction: In the late nineteenth century, thousands sought adventure and fortune on the cattle t...
Introduction: In the late nineteenth century, thousands sought adventure and fortune on the cattle t...
Introduction: In 1867 the only thing standing between the prized stock of westward-marching settlers...