The Chisholm Trail to Dodge City

This is a story about a 14-year-old Texas boy who joins a cattle drive at the Red River in 1880, and his day to day adventures on the trail to Dodge City, Kansas. Crossing into Indian Territory on the Abilene Trail (now called the Chisholm Trail), the cowboys join Chisholm’s Wagon Road near the north fork of the Canadian River. With the eastern Kansas cattle markets of Abilene, Ellsworth, Newton and Wichita off limits to Texas cattle, the herd turns northwest after crossing the Cimarron River to head for Dodge. Will he survive wild longhorns, half-broke ponies, Indians, outlaws, rustlers, storms, stampedes, rattlesnakes and other adventures? Learn about real people, places, and events along the way.