The Texas Trail, better known as the Texas Road[clarify][citation needed] but also known as the Shawnee Trail,[citation needed] Sedalia Trail[citation needed] or the Kansas Trail,[citation needed] was a historic cattle trail which was used to drive cattle from Texas to the railhead for the Union Pacific Railway in Kansas, then by rail to Ogallala, Nebraska and other locations on the in Nebraska. This emerged as an alternative to the Chisholm Trail which had brought cattle to Abilene, Kansas and other locations on the Kansas Pacific Railroad,[1] and Dodge City on the Atchison & Topeka Railway.

Near Imperial, Nebraska are portions of a dry stone corral which served the trail. The corral was built c.1876; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Texas Trail Stone Corral.[2]

According to one source the last cattle drive over the trail was in 1884,[3] but others say there were drives later.[1]

The XIT Ranch used the Texas Trail, connecting Tascosa to Dodge City until 1885. That was when the quarantine line was extended to southwestern Kansas.[4]

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References

  1. ^ a b "The Texas Trail".
  2. ^ Pogany, Erin; Sarah Davis McBride (May 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Texas Trail Stone Corral / NeHBS # CH00-041" (PDF). Archived from the original on June 16, 2010. Retrieved 2013-02-08. ((cite journal)): Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "The Texas Trail". Nebraska State Historical Association. Archived from the original on July 2, 2004.((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ Haley, J. Evetts (1929). The XIT Ranch of Texas: And the Early Days of the Llano Estacado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 126. ISBN 0806114282.
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