Who Built The Cow Town Of Abilene Kansas At The End Of The Chisholm Trail?
Joseph McCoy. In the North and East they could be worth forty dollars per head. In 1866 some herds traveled the Shawnee Trail in eastern Oklahoma, but the woods and the region’s rough terrain discouraged trail driving. In 1867 Joseph McCoy built stockyards on the Kansas-Pacific railroad in Abilene, Kansas. Who set up the first …
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