Adventures and Tragedies on the Overland Trail
Beale’s Wagon Road From New Mexico to California
Beginning of Settlement in the American West
The Bozeman Trail – A Violent Path to the Gold Fields
Adventures on the Bozeman Trail
Butterfield’s Overland Mail Company
The California Trail – Rush to Gold
Camel Caravans of the American Deserts
The Cattle Trails by Emerson Hough
Cattle Trails of the Prairie by Charles Harger
Cherokee Trail – Alternate Route to the West
The Chisholm Trail – Herding the Cattle
Jesse Chisholm – Blazing a Trail
Corps of Discovery – The Lewis & Clark Expedition
Disease and Death on the Overland Trails
Index of Trail Blazers, Riders, & Cowboys
John Colter’s Escape From the Indians
Early Transportation on the Great Plains
Charles Goodnight – Blazing the Cattle Trails
Oliver Loving – Pioneer Cowboy
Loving’s Bend – A 1910 Account
Granada-Fort Union Military Road
The Great Wagon Road of the East
The Great Western Cattle Trail
Illinois to the California Goldfields in ’49
Indians and Emigrants on the Overland Trails
A Journey to Denver via the Butterfield Overland Dispatch
Mormon Handcart Tragedy of 1856
Natchez Trace – Traveled For Thousands of Years
Legends and Mysteries of the Natchez Trace
The National Road – First Highway in America
Old Spanish Trail – Trading Between New Mexico and California
Oregon Trail – Pathway to the West
Crime and Punishment on the Overland Trails
Danger and Hardship on the Oregon Trail
Historic Sites on the Oregon Trail
Jeffrey-Goodale Cutoff on the Oregon Trail
Hall Jackson Kelley – Promoting the Oregon Trail
A Ghost Story on the Oregon Trail
Oregon-California Trail Timeline
Sager Orphans on the Oregon Trail
Overland Trail Across the American West
Pathways To the West – A 1918 Account
Pawnee Trail in Kansas
Pony Express – Fasted Mail Across the West
The Reign Of The Prairie Schooner
Santa Fe Trail – Highway to the Southwest
Lucien Maxwell by a Santa Fe Trail Driver
My Friend, Kit Carson, by a Santa Fe Trail Driver
The Shawnee Trail – Driving Longhorns to Missouri
Smoky Hill Trail – Heading for Gold
Stagecoaches of the American West
Struggle For Possession of the West – The First Emigrants
Tales of the Shotgun-Messenger Service
Trading Posts and Their Stories
Trading Posts of the Fur Trade
Trappers’ Trail of Colorado and Wyoming
War on the Oregon & California Trails
Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny
The Wilderness Road Opens Kentucky
Women on the Move: Overland Journeys to California
The Old Chisholm Trail
Well come along boys and listen to my tale,
I’ll tell you my troubles on the old Chisholm Trail.
On a ten dollar horse and a forty dollar saddle,
I started out to punchin’ then longhorn cattle.
I started up the trail October twenty-third,
I started up the trail with the 2U herd.
I’m up in the morning before daylight,
And before I sleep the moon shines bright.
It’s bacon and beans most every day,
We’ll soon be a-eatin’ prairie hay.
With my seat in the saddle and my hand on the horn,
I’m the best damned cowboy that ever was born.
It’s cloudy in the west and a-lookin’ like rain,
And my damned old slicker’s in the wagon again.
– A favorite song of the old time cowboys.
Also See:
List of Trail Blazers, Riders, & Cowboys