The Chisholm Trail Volume 3 by James E. Sherow, James P. Ronda - 9780806195551

The Chisholm Trail Volume 3Joseph McCoy's Great Gamble\nAuthor(s): James E. Sherow, James P. Ronda\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806195551, 978-0806195551\nSynopsis\nOne hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of Texas Longhorns coming up the Chisholm Trailand the youngest brother, Joseph, saw how a middleman could become wealthy in the process. This is the story of how that gamble paid off, transforming the cattle trade and, with it, the American landscape and diet.\n\nThe Chisholm Trail follows McCoys vision and the effects of the Chisholm Trail from postCivil War Texas and Kansas to the multimillion-dollar beef industry that remade the Great Plains, the American diet, and the nationa.