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For mroe than a dozen tempetuous years following 1867, the Chisholm Trail was the Texas cowhand's road to high adventure.  It offered the excitement of sudden stampedes, hazardous river crossings, and brushed with Indian marauders.  It promised, at the end of the drive, hilarious celebrations in the saloons, gambling parlors, and dance halls of frontier Kansas towns.  For The Chisholm Trail, Wayne Gard interviewed surviving trail drivers and visited communities along the route in search of public records, manuscripts, archives, and newspaper files.  Drawing on these and othe sources, he recounts the courage, daring and enterprise of the cattle owners and their cowboys, establishing them firmly as hearoes in America's westwart expansion.

264 pages of text, black and white photographs, maps and more.