That would have been the Chisholm Trail.
The Chisholm Trail was a trail that was used to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas rail heads during the late 19th century. The trail is named for Jesse Chisholm, who had built several trading posts in what is now western Oklahoma.
I must assume you are asking about cattle drives since you don't ask it in your question. Kansas was the nearest rail line for the cattle drives. Kansas City had the largest stockyards for the trains going east.
The herding of cattle from Texas to railroad centers to the north was called a cattle drive. Cattle drives took many months to complete. Some of the cowboys would drive the cattle to Kansas and not want to go back to the ranch after being paid. Then ranchers would have to hire more hands the next cattle drive season.
Chisholm Trail. (:
Free range originally meant unfenced cattle grazing lands.
The Johnson's Trail(It also went from abline to san antonio)
the chisholm trail a trail from san antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to kansas
Kansas and Oklahoma are the top states for housing and feeding finisher cattle.
the Chisolm and the Great Western Cattle Trail.
Montana. Texas is another state that is also famous for raising cattle.
The 600-mile Chisholm Trail was used extensively until 1871. Illinois cattle buyer Joseph G. McCoy laid out the trail along an old trade path initially developed by merchant Jesse Chisholm. It ran north from San Antonio to Fort Worth, Texas, through Oklahoma and ended at Abilene, Kansas.
The Chisholm Trail was important because it is how cattle were driven from Texas to Kansas before the railroad expanded. It was the main route ranchers used and it allowed them to get beef to the Northeast and the sale of cattle helped Texas get out of the poverty left over from the Civil War.
No. Texas ranks number one in the country for total cattle production followed by Kansas, Nebraska, California and Oklahoma.
Sidney, Ogallala and North Platte by 1868.
Kansas had railroads
It was a trail used to move cattle from Texas, where Chisolm started, north to Kansas where they have either passed through to further north or sold to cattle buyers in that state.
They began where the cattle were bred and raised and were moved to the nearest town on the rail lines. Many cattlemen lived in the states of Texas and Oklahoma and for a time the nearest rail stop was Abeliene, Kansas.