A RANCHMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS 



central Iowa for Monroe Choate and Borroum. M. 

 A. Withers drove a herd in 1859 from Lockhart, 

 Tex., to Fredericksburg, Tex., and in 1862 to Shreve- 

 port, La., selHng the cattle at $20 per head, delivered. 

 In 1870 W. E. Cureton took 1,500 head to a point 

 near Los Angeles, Cal., wintered them there, and 

 took them on to Reno, Nev., in 187 1. E. A. Roe- 

 buck went with a herd to North Dakota in 1876, 

 and made a trip soon after to Utah. L. B. Anderson 

 records that he was eighteen years on the trail, with- 

 out exact range as to dates. A. N. Eustace made eight 

 trips (1879 to 1887), comprehending both Kansas 

 and the northwest. W. B. Hardeman refers to a 

 trail to the northwest in 1886 with Blocker, Davis 

 and Driscoll. The stock comprised 40,000 cattle and 

 1,400 horses. R. McCoy mentions 260,000 cattle as 

 crossing Red River In 1866. He speaks of 35,000 

 cattle reaching Abilene, Kans., in 1867 or i per cent 

 of the then estimated cattle in the United States, as 

 calculated on the basis of probably meager Govern- 

 mental data. Sirlngo records that in 1880 the "Old 

 Chisholm" trail was impassable for large herds, as 

 with plows the "fool hoe men" were turning its 

 packed surface into ribbons. He also states that in 

 July of that year he reached Tascosa, Tex., with a 

 trail herd of 3,700 head for the northwest, and that 

 during their rest at Tascosa the first cowboy. Cape 

 Willingham, was killed, the incident forming the 

 basis for the afterwards famous "Boot Hill Ceme- 



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