History of the United States II / Unit 2 USH2 0169 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Cattle Kingdom
Captions available
The idea
The cattle boom ran from eighteen sixty-five to eighteen eighty-five, driving Texas longhorns north along the Chisholm Trail to Kansas railheads.
In practice
A steer bought for three to five dollars in Texas selling for thirty to fifty at Abilene.
Where people slip
Digital History counts five million longhorns in Texas in eighteen sixty. Joseph McCoy developed Abilene as the trade's first great hub.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it · Sources for History of the United States II