The Shawnee Cattle Trail System, 1846-1875
The first south-to-north cattle trailing network used by Texas drovers before and after the Civil War. This maps shows the trunk line from south Texas to Baxter Springs, Kansas, and the various splinter routes (branches) developed by drovers after the Civil War. This map is referenced and explained in our second book, The Western Cattle Trail, 1874-1897, Its Rise, Collapse, and Revival.
Map created by Gary Kraisinger
Artwork by Robby McMurtry
Price includes tube and shipping.
The Shawnee Cattle Trail System, 1846-1875
Poster-size -24” x 36” printed on heavier paper; rolled and shipped in a tube.
Unlike the State maps, a cattle trail system map shows the entire network of various trails
—branches, splinter routes, off shoots—that stem from a trunk line originating in Texas.
As circumstances changed through the years, drovers created new branches but the trunk line stayed the same.