Description
Lost Trails of the Cimarron is Harry Chrisman's folk history of nineteenth-century Cimarron country - southwestern Kansas, southeastern Colorado, and the neutral strip of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Buffalo hunters entered the area in violation of the Medicine Lodge Treaty, followed by cowboys and settlers who formed a vast economy based on grass and beef, the beginnings of prominent cattle ranches such as Westmoreland-Hitch Outfit. Chrisman details the history of the outlaws and ruffians of No Man's Land and trail drives to Dodge City and beyond. Numerous illustrations accompany the anecdotes and stories of various frontier personalities.
Author: Harry E. Chrisman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 09/15/1998
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.47w x 0.74d
ISBN13: 9780806130170
ISBN10: 0806130172
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- History | United States | 19th Century