ANOTHER WAY
By Jim Gray
By the end of 1870 the Kansas Pacific Railway finally connected the Missouri river with the Rocky Mountains. Change was rapidly coming to the prairie. Abilene, Kan., had carved out a place for itself as the seat of the Texas cattle trade, annually bringing tens of thousands of rangy longhorns to the Great Western Stock Yards along the ribbon of rails passing across the state.
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