Centennial Episode 6 The Longhorns part 4

[helenealm]

Were there more outlaws in Kansas than anywhere else?

[packjim56]

@helenealm at this time there were many cattle towns in Kansas, with stockyards used in shipping live cattle onto the railroads to Chicago. And the herds would usually be driven in more or less a straight line up from Texas. So naturally, gangs of cattle rustlers would prey upon these herders as they coming up from Texas. They would usually deploy the raids in Kansas and try to avoid hitting the herds in Texas altogether. Because the Texans had a deterrent called the "Texas Rangers".

[edarotag84]

We still drive cattle some, but not like in the old days for 1,000 miles or more, more like 20 miles now, bringing them home for the winter, then branding the calves in the spring and letting them go out to open range for the summer.

Tex

[emmettluvr27]

i wish i cud haf been there in the old day when they did this sort of stuff ^^