GREAT AMERICAN CATTLE TRAILS: THE STORY OF THE OLD COW PATHS OF THE EAST AND THE LONGHORN HIGWAYS OF THE PLAINS.
Harry Sinclair. Drago
New York: Bramhall House, 1965. xii,274pp. Index. Bibliography. Maps (2). Gray cloth title in black on the spine. Reprint edition published the same year as the Dodd, Mead true first. Very good copy in a good+ jacket. Adams, Six-Guns 624: “Has a chapter on Wild Bill Hickok and material on other gunman, such as Billy the Kid, the Earps, John Wesley Hardin, Doc Holiday, Bat Masterson, Ben and Bill Thompson, and the Talbot gang.” This is a history of the American cattle trail, in all its forms from the Spanish introduction of cattle to American Colonial market to the major trails on the 1880s.