Several of these recommended books on the Chisholm Trail are available for free online.
Writers and readers can’t get enough stories about those 1800s cattle trails.
As you read this, I am out of the office. Yet I did not forget the statewide readership of the Think, Texas newsletter and column. In my absence, allow me to offer an Aug. 20, 2017, column about the Chisholm Trail written by my colleague Glen Seeber of the Oklahoman, a sibling Gannett newspaper in the USA Today Network.
While there are many books about the cattle drives of the late 1800s and the mostly young men who faced the dangers of the trail for hundreds of miles to get the cattle to market, here are a few of the outstanding books I have come across in my own decades of bookshelf exploration:
Several of these recommended books on the Chisholm Trail are available for free online.
Writers and readers can’t get enough stories about those 1800s cattle trails.
As you read this, I am out of the office. Yet I did not forget the statewide readership of the Think, Texas newsletter and column. In my absence, allow me to offer an Aug. 20, 2017, column about the Chisholm Trail written by my colleague Glen Seeber of the Oklahoman, a sibling Gannett newspaper in the USA Today Network.
While there are many books about the cattle drives of the late 1800s and the mostly young men who faced the dangers of the trail for hundreds of miles to get the cattle to market, here are a few of the outstanding books I have come across in my own decades of bookshelf exploration: