One of the great mythos of the Great Plains is the cattle drive of the American West. The cattle drive holds a special place in the mythos of the Great Plains and the American West. In this episode we ...

Groups representing the historic American cattle drives have pledged to work together to promote the valuable role of the cattle drives in the history of the Old West. On Nov. 1, in Dodge City, Kansas ...

SPEARFISH, S.D. -- Spring and summer are perfect seasons to learn more about the region's agricultural heritage. One of the best places to learn the "western" traditions is at the High Plains Western ...

A closer look at the skilled Black riders, ropers, and trail hands who shaped the frontier long before Hollywood rewrote the narrative. The image of the American cowboy has long been filtered through ...

One of the things that helped create the image of the western cowboy was the hard work some of them did on long cattle drives to northern markets. Cattle drives from Texas were a significant part of ...

The early trails. -- The Osage trace. -- The Texas road. -- War on the Texas road. -- The Texas fever scourge. -- The longhorns leave the Teas Road. -- The longhorn and the mustang. -- The Chisholm ...

Cattle bosses on the Great Western Trail were dreamers, and the rangy longhorns they drove from Texas through here on the way to Kansas and Nebraska, fetched fortunes, but they probably never imagined ...