Title and Description of Your Part of the Standard
Describe the role of the cattle trails in the late 19th century; include the Black
Cowboys of Texas, the Great Western Cattle Trail, and the Chisholm Trail.
Online Sources Pictures and annotations We each do 5
Key Words
 Chisholm Trail
 Texas Ranch House
 Black Cowboys of Texas
 Great Western Cattle Trails
The Great Western Cattle Trail – This site will give you information on six cattle
 Western Cattle Drives
drive trails. It has maps, pictures and links to find more information.
 Texas
http://www.greatwesterncattletrail.com/cattle_trails_1/cattle_trails_1.html
 Kansas
 Nebraska
For teachers:
This site gives fun interactive activities, website and books to review and lesson
plans. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ranchhouse/1867_essay6.html
Chisholm Trail
Source Citation
"CChisholm Trail." Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. Ed. Thomas
Carson and Mary Bonk. Detroit: Gale, 1999. U.S. History in Context. Web. 28
Sept. 2014.
Document URL
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Important People
 Nat Love
 Bose Ikard
 Isom Dart
 Bill Pickett
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Western movement in America – This article gives information from the early
1600’s so you’ll need to read through it to find your time period and information.
Steffen, J. O. (2014). Westward movement in America. In World Book Student.
Retrieved from
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar599870
Print Sources
Pictures and annotations We each do 2
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(From http://www.blackcowboys.com/BlackCowboysofTexas.htm)
Black Cowboys of Texas
Edited by Sara R. Massey
Introduction by Alwyn Barr
This will be a great book to find out information on the Black Cowboys of Texas.
It was the Winner of the 2000 T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award from the Texas
Historical Commission.
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This book gives great information on the Chisholm Trail and why the movement
went westward.
Gard, W. (1979). The Chisholm Trail. Norman, Okla: University of Oklahoma
Press. Retrieved from http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxygsuwgc1.galileo.usg.edu/ehost/detail/detail?sid=e3a68d19-2474-4fc4-a4dccc3c68a85b4c%40sessionmgr112&vid=0&hid=118&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3Qt
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Other Sources
Such as audio files and videos on the subject. We each do at least 2
Map of the cattle drives 1866 – 1886.
"Cattle Trails, 1866-1886." Map. American History. ABC-CLIO, 2014. Web. 28
Sept. 2014.
Ebook
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This is a book about one man’s life on an Ranch in Oklahoma where he learned
about Western tales.
Collins, H. E. (1998). Storm and Stampede on the Chisholm. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press. Retrived from http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxygsuwgc1.galileo.usg.edu/ehost/detail/detail?sid=030612fd-b9bc-47d6-8d28850ab50c5272%40sessionmgr113&vid=0&hid=118&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3Qt
bGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=nlebk&AN=41759
From http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/red_river/
This is a movie based on Chase's original story (which was first serialized
in The Saturday Evening Post in 1946 as "Blazing Guns on the Chisholm
Trail"). While it is fiction it gives an idea of what life was like on the first
cattle drive to Missouri.
You can watch short clips of the movie from Turner Classic Movies.
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/16633/Red-River/videos.html Retrieved
September 28, 2014.