On The Chisholm Trail #2
by Gail Daley
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Title
On The Chisholm Trail #2
Artist
Gail Daley
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
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On The Chisholm Trail. I�ve always loved the western genre and when I decided that my 2016 entries in the Old West Art show would be about trail herds, I started researching. After the Civil War, untended herds in Texas multiplied quickly as Union blockades cut the state off from market outlets. four-dollar-per-head cattle in Texas could bring $40 to $50 apiece in eastern markets In 1866 Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving blazed the first trail, known as the Goodnight-Loving trail northwest from Palo Pinto County, Texas, to Pope's Crossing in southeastern New Mexico, and on north to Fort Sumner and Fort Bascom. In 1867 the 600-mile Chisholm Trail (sometimes referred to as Chisium) initially developed by merchant Jesse Chisholm became the main trail, and it was used extensively until 1871. It ran north from San Antonio to Fort Worth, Texas, through Oklahoma and ended at Abilene, Kansas. Stock pens built in Abilene to hold cattle for shipment on the Kansas Pacific Railroad waited for the herds. In 1871 alone, Cowboys drove some 600,000-700,000 Texas Longhorns north from Texas. In 1884, the great era of the cattle trails ended when Kansas enacted a quarantine against Texas cattle due to the spread of �Texas Fever� (a tick borne cattle disease to which the longhorns were immune) effectively killing the large northern drives. The final blow to the cattle drives came when the railroads pushed trunk lines south so that cattle could be shipped directly from Texas. Sporadic drives continued on a lower basis for another decade, but the great era of the cattle trails had ended.
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