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Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm-the bold, illegitimate son of frontier scout and plains ambassador Jesse Chisholm and a Cherokee woman-arrives in the heart of Comanche country with a price on his head. His only crime: loving the beautiful daughter of a powerful New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates. Now that Ten has returned to the harsh Texas brakes with a team...

With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.

Of all the routes by which cattle reached the northern ranges in the American West of the ninteenth century, the Chisholm Trail was the most used and by far rhe best known. Its name came from the Scot-Indian trader Jesse Chisholm who, in 1865, began hauling trade goods in wagons from his post near the future site of Wichita, Kansas, to Indian camps on the North Carolina River, about 220 miles south. Although it was open for less than two decades,...

A cattle baron and his adopted son head the first drive over the Chisolm trail when he can't find a local market for his herd.

Follow Cade McCall as he rides the Chisholm Trail, crosses raging rivers, faces cattle rustlers and fights marauding Indians while taking a herd of longhorns north to Kansas. He reaches his destination only to be devastated by the most heinous act he has ever encountered. Driven by a rage-filled determination, Cade begins his search for justice, a search that ends with Cades Revenge.

When young George McJunkin leaves his home in Texas and joins a cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail, he experiences the hardships of being a Black cowboy after the Civil War.