The Texas Trail, another name for the Great Western Cattle Trail, was used to drive cattle from Texas to Ogallala, Nebraska. This emerged as an alternative to the Chisholm Trail.[1]
Near Imperial, Nebraska are portions of a dry stone corral which served the trail. The corral was built c.1876; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Texas Trail Stone Corral.[2]
According to one source the last cattle drive over the trail was in 1884,[3] but others say there were drives later.[1]
The XIT Ranch used the Texas Trail, connecting Tascosa to Dodge City until 1885. That was when the quarantine line was extended to southwestern Kansas.[4]
- ^ a b "The Texas Trail".
- ^ Pogany, Erin; Sarah Davis McBride (May 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Texas Trail Stone Corral / NeHBS # CH00-041" (PDF). Archived from the original on June 16, 2010. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help)CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "The Texas Trail". Nebraska State Historical Association. Archived from the original on July 2, 2004.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Haley, J. Evetts (1929). The XIT Ranch of Texas: And the Early Days of the Llano Estacado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 126. ISBN 0806114282.
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