Abilene,KANSAS

Abilene

• Became a cattle town in the 1867
• First cattle town west of Kansas City

TYPE OF CATTLE

• Longhorns

HOW MANY CATTLE

• 1871, more than 5,000 cowboys herded from 600,000 to 700,000 cows to Abilene

Joseph McCoy

• McCoy's plan was for cattle to be driven to Abilene from Texas and taken from there by rail to bigger cities in The Midwest and the East.

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Chisholm Trail

• a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland, from ranches in Texas to Kansas railhead
• estimated 5,000,000 head of Texas cattle to reach Kansas over the Chisholm Trail

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DWIGHT D EISENHOWER

• 34th United States President
• Spent a majority of his childhood living in Abilene, Kansas

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