The Chisholm Trail: A History of the World's Greatest Cattle Trail Paperback – Import, 21 April 2015

Well written and made you feel if you were there! The exciting part was my great-great-grandfather was a bull whacker that drove the oxen pulling the supply wagon. He was also one who took part in the Oklahoma Land rush and spent the time needed to gain the title, however, his wife was not a fan of the wind and cold winters, so they moved to Enid where they spent the rest of their lives. It was very informative to feel what it was like living there during that short time in history!

Hätte nicht gedacht, so ein aufschlußreiches und interessantes, detailreiches Buch zu erhalten. Wer sich für den "wilden Westen" interessiert, Viehtriebe und Cowboys, der Erschliessung des Westens der ist hier gut aufgehoben. Nichts für jemanden, der tolle, reißerische Stories lesen will, nein, hier gehts um echte Geschichte! Sehr lesenswert!

Great book reading it now

This is not just a book about the Chisholm cattle trail. It is an eyewitness account of the life in the Wild West. Indian tribes, cowboys, heroes, villains - and the country. Various events are described in minute details, as if in a movie script. The only caveat is that it is an OCR-scan of the original version, and contains a lot of scan errors. A great shame that no-one cared to proof-read it before it was printed.

The author presents a broad personal based history of the Chisholm trail for cattle. This trail was an important part of the old west and passage of which was an important part of the lives of thousands of cowboys of the 1800s and into the 1900s. It's importance extended across the nation to the east as cattle moved over this trail was headed to market to feed much of the United States. The author, being an attorney, gets a little into legalese at times, but most of the book is quite readable and full of facts and dispels many myths of the time. He, in his youth also worked as a cowboy himself, and thus speaks not just from a learned point of view, but from one of experience as well. He speaks not only of cowboys, but of outlaws and Indians of the area as well as the early lack of, then the spread of law into the area, civil as well as criminal. He personally knew many of the local characters