A Shoot out on the Range
When Abilene opened up in 1867 as a cattle market for the trail herds coming out of Texas the floodgates were opened. Cowboys drove millions of cattle into Kansas on their way to ranches, feedlots, and packing plants to feed a hungry nation. South of the Kansas border, drovers passed through the Cherokee lands reserved for the tribe after its forced removal from the ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States.
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