Comment on roadside trail markers & monuments
Chronology of events: 1836-1897
Terms the reader needs to know
Part I. One Brief Lifetime : The Four Texas Trail Systems and the Texas Fever
The Shawnee Trail System, 1846-1875
The Goodnight Trail System, 1866-1885
The Eastern/Chisholm Trail System, 1867-1889
The Western Trail System, 1874-1897
Part II. The Western Cattle Trail and its Feeder and Splinter Routes before the 1885 Kansas Quarantine
The Western Trail in Texas, the staging area, and its feeder routes in southwest and central Texas
North to Doan's Crossing and the Red River
Indian Territory : military forts, feeder and splinter routes
Kansas homesteaders & Kansas quarantines
Destination : Ogallala, Nebraska and two splinter routes
The Western Cattle Trail, from Ogallala to Canada and more splinter routes
Part III. The Re-Emergence of the Cattle Trailing Industry via the National Trail and the Texas-Montana Feeder Route to the Western Cattle Trail, 1885-1897
Change and turmoil brews in the cattle-trailing industry
No Man's Land & the National Trail, 1885-1887
The Texas-Montana feeder route (1884-1897) and the end of the cattle-trailing industry
"It ain't never goin' to be like it used to be."