Building Your Western Library: Cattle Drives

(True West) Gary and Margaret Kraisinger’s years-long passion has been to study and share with others the fascinating history of cattle-driving from Texas to all points north. To them, this short-lived endeavor of cowboy outfits driving herds of longhorns to an outlet, stopping along the way at cattle towns, encompasses the Old West in its purest form. The task of pushing Texas cattle to a northern destination ended in 1897, but through the years the heritage of that industry continues to be retold again and again through movies, re-enactments, novels and nonfictional accounts such as in their upcoming 2017 book, The Shawnee-Arbuckle Trail, 1867-1870, The Predecessor of the Chisholm Trail to Abilene, Kansas. Continued