Great Western Cattle Trail

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The Great Western Cattle Trail was used in the 1800s for movement of cattle to markets in the East. It ran west of and roughly parallel to the Chisholm Trail. The Great Western Trail began at Bandera, Texas, passed near Abilene, Texas, and ended in Dodge City, Kansas. The trail was also known as the Western Trail, the Dodge City Trail, or the Old Texas Trail.

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• Kansas History: The Great Western Cattle Trail
• Rebelcherokee: The Great Western Cattle Trail
• The book The Log of a Cowboy by Andy Adams (text available at Project Gutenburg) gives a detailed but fictional account of a cattle drive along the Great Western Cattle Trail.
• Maps of the trail