01282cam a2200229 4500 629577070 TxAuBib 20230131120000.0 230131|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781097560684 1097560686 TxAuBib Ridings, Sam, April 8, 2022. The Chisholm Trail / Published April 8,2022 Middletown Delaware. The Chisholm Trail is one of the most famous cattle trails of the Old West. It ran for eight hundred miles, from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas, and was instrumental in creating the famous image of the cowboy. But how was the trail created? Who devised its Route? And why were the cattle drives across states so important for the economy of the southwest? Sam P.Riding's fascinating book The Chisholm Trail: A history of the World's Greatest Cattle Trail gives an in-depth overview of the routes creation,Who rode along it and how it eventually was superseded by the Emergence of the railways. 20230131. Cattle drives West (U.S.) History 19th century. Cowboys West (U.S.) History. Texas History. Oklahoma History. Kansas History.