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The Chisholm Trail Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Gard, Wayne (Author), Eggenhofer, Nick (Author), Eggenhofer, Nick (Illustrator)
ISBN: 080611536X     ISBN-13: 9780806115368
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
OUR PRICE:   $23.70  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 1954
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Annotation: For more than a dozen tempestuous years, beginning in 1867, the Chisholm Trail was the Texas cowhand's road to high adventure. It offered the excitement of sudden stampedes, hazardous river crossings, and brushes with Indian marauders. It promised, at the end of the drive, hilarious celebrations in the saloons, gambling parlors, and dance halls of frontier Kansas towns. The account that appears in The Chisholm Trail reveals the courage, daring, and enterprise of the cattle owners and their cowboys, establishing them firmly as heroes in the westward expansion.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 19th Century
- History | Native American
Dewey: 976.4
LCCN: 54006204
Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.61" W x 8.35" (0.93 lbs) 308 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Plains
- Cultural Region - South
- Cultural Region - Southwest U.S.
- Geographic Orientation - Kansas
- Geographic Orientation - Oklahoma
- Geographic Orientation - Texas
 
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Publisher Description:
For more than a dozen tempestuous years, beginning in 1867, the Chisholm Trail was the Texas cowhand's road to high adventure. It offered the excitement of sudden stampedes, hazardous river crossings, and brushes with Indian marauders. It promised, at the end of the drive, hilarious celebrations in the saloons, gambling parlors, and dance halls of frontier Kansas towns. The account that appears on these pages reveals the courage, daring, and enterprise of the cattle owners and their cowboys, establishing them firmly as heroes in the westward expansion. "The best story of adventure that has come this way in a fair interval....It's better reading than several dozen of the latest, largest, lustiest historical novels....A magnificent piece of work." New York Times "An excellent piece of Western Americana, displaying exceptional artistic and historical merits." American Historical Review "Wayne Gard has focused the lens of scholarship on the subject as no previous student has. He has done more to enable us to see what [the Chisholm Trail] was, where it began, and where it ended, and what went on along and around it than any other." Walter Prescott Webb, Saturday Review

Contributor Bio(s): Gard, Wayne: - Wayne Gard (1899-1986) was a longtime editorial writer for the Dallas Morning News and President of the Texas State Historical Association. He was the author of seven volumes of Texana and southwestern history, including Frontier Justice and The Chisholm Trail, both published by the University of Oklahoma Press.Eggenhofer, Nick: - Renowned western artist Nick Eggenhofer illustrated a number of University of Oklahoma Press books, including Come an' Get It, Bad Medicine and Good, and The Chisholm Trail.