The Kansas Cowboy, Kansas Cattle Towns, Kansas
Cowtowns, KS Cattle Trails
Town |
County |
Date |
Railroad |
Cattle Trail |
Baxter Springs |
Cherokee |
1860's/1870's ???? |
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Old Shawnee Trail |
Old
Coffeyville |
Montgomery |
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Leavenworth, Lawrence & Gulf |
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Abilene |
Dickinson |
1867/1872 |
Kansas Pacific |
Chisholm Trail |
Brookville |
Saline |
1867/1870's |
Kansas Pacific |
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Ellsworth |
Ellsworth |
1872/1873 |
Kansas Pacific |
Cox's Trail/Ellsworth Cattle Trail |
Ellis |
Ellis |
????/???? |
Kansas Pacific |
|
Newton |
Harvey |
Jul 1871/1872 |
Santa Fe |
Chisholm Trail |
Wichita |
Sedgwick |
1872/1878 |
Santa Fe |
Chisholm Trail |
Dodge City |
Ford |
1875/1885 |
Santa Fe |
Western Trail |
Caldwell |
Sumner |
1867/???? |
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Chisholm Trail |
The Kansas Heritage Server would like to thank Mary Ann
Thompson for contributing this material about Kansas Cattletowns, Kansas
Cowtowns and the Kansas Cowboy.
"By 1869 the main trails were well defined...the best
known of these was the Chisholm Trail...the Chisholm Trail ran north from
Red River station across the Indian Territories, and entered Kansas near
Caldwell. It crossed the Arkansas River at Wichita and continued past the
present site of Newton to Abilene. The 'old Shawnee Trail' led from the
Red River to Baxter Springs in southeastern Kansas, another northern
shipping point opened about the same time as Abilene, but never so
important as a cattle market. In the seventies, the trail through the
Creek Nation to Baxter was known as the Okmulkee Route. Between the two
main trails was the 'west Shawnee Trail', which left its namesake near the
Canadian River and ended at Junction City. A new trail, known as Cox's
Trail or the Ellsworth Cattle Trail, was surveyed to Ellsworth in the
spring of 1873...the new route branched off from the old trail at the Pond
Creek ranch about half way between Salt Fork of the Arkansas river and
Pond Creek, Indian Territories, and ran by way of Kingman and Ellinwood to
Ellsworth...trails were established to Dodge City and other points in
western Kansas, and many herds were driven by thousands of cowboys to
Nebraska and other northern and western states and territories."
Source: Streeter, Floyd B. Prairie Trails and Cow
Towns.
'
Home on the Range' is the Kansas state song.
It became the official state song on June 30, 1947.
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