Traveling History Up the Cattle Trails: A Road Tripper's Guide to the Cattle Roads of the Southwest - Paperback

by Robin Cole-Jett (Author)

American culture has grown up around the mythic West - the cowboy, the open range, and the longhorn. What better way to discover the legends surrounding the Old West than to follow the history of the cattle drives? "Traveling History Up the Cattle Trails" offers three historic road trips that trace the Shawnee, Chisholm, and Great Western Cattle Trails from Texas all the way to Kansas. Complete travel itineraries, vintage photographs, depictions of relics from the past, and trail drive histories make this book a great traveling companion for all readers enthralled with the open road.

Author Biography

Robin Cole-Jett is editor and publisher of Red River Historian.com, a website devoted to "where the South meets the West." She is a writer and history lecturer who lives in Denton County, Texas.