1. A variation was to drive cattle on to cultivated land, and then have damages assessed at the full value of the animals. 2. Down below, fires are being lit and the cattle are being driven gently into the enclosures of thorn bushes. 3. Afterward, the cattle will be driven to the Stockyards, where they will be permanently installed in cattle pens north of East Exchange Avenue. 4. But the expense of driving the cattle that high is prohibitive. 5. Chisholm, historians agree, never drove cattle in Texas. 6. He then advertised this path to Texas ranchers, persuading them to drive their cattle to Kansas and his holding pens. 7. I just want them to know that the men who drove the cattle called this the Eastern Trail. 8. It seems two ranchers, George W. Mason and Tom Eubank, drove cattle to market by that route. 9. Look at those people up there being driven like a Texas cowboy driving cattle to the butchers. 10. Post-Civil War boot makers served men driving cattle from South Texas to Kansas by crafting boots from any animal they could find. |