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Feb 6, 2017 · In 1867, cattle-shipping entrepreneur Joseph G. McCoy of the McCoy Brothers of Springfield, Illinois, went to Kansas to find a town on the Kansas Pacific Railroad and discovered the village of Abilene, on the western edge of the state’s farm settlements.
Jul 15, 2024 · In 1867, Joseph McCoy created the cow town Abilene. In the westward zone of Kansas, Abilene served as a transit point for cowboys and their herds. Abilene was the ideal location for several reasons... Firstly, there was plenty of grassland and water for the herds.
May 7, 2020 · On September 5, 1867, the first Texas cattle were shipped from the railhead in Abilene, Kansas, with most of the livestock ending their destination in a slaughterhouse in Chicago, Illinois. These cattle made a long, none too pleasant journey from south Texas to central Kansas.
In 1867, Joseph G. McCoy was a young cattle dealer from Illinois. He decided that Abilene would make a good railhead. Abilene was the first of the Kansas cow towns. The last big year for Abilene was in 1871 when more than 40,000 head of cattle are said to have been shipped out by rail.
Such was the Abilene that Joseph G. McCoy found when he came west on the Kansas Pacific railway in search of a point on that line which could be used as a shipping point for the herds of Texas cattle being driven north.
The first cattle drive reached Abilene in August 1867. On September 5, 1867, the first load of cattle were shipped via rail from Kansas. The trail would eventually be called the Chisholm Trail.
Sep 5, 2017 · Gary and Margaret Kraisinger’s The Shawnee-Arbuckle Cattle Trail 1867-1870 reveals insightful details of how entrepreneurial cattle buyer Joseph G. McCoy chose Abilene, Kansas, and marketed his railhead cattle pens and drovers’ cottage to the Texas cattlemen.
