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Track #257136: Texas Cattle Drives
Annotated by: Jamie Smith
1. Digital Knowledge Central
http://www.librarylink.info/dkc/

Databases/research sites including Encyclopaedia Brittanica

2. Citation Machine
http://citationmachine.net/

Use for MLA format on works cited/sources

3. Texas State Historical Association
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/index.html

The Handbook of Texas Online – Search for Cattle Trailing

4. Texas Almanac
http://www.texasalmanac.com/texascattle.html

Texas History - Information about Cattle Drives

5. USA Tourist
http://www.usatourist.com/english/inside/cowboys2.html

Cowboy Cattle Drives - Open Range, Chisholm and Goodnight-Loving Trail, Chuck Wagons, End of an Era

6. Wyoming Tales and Trails-Texas Trail Photos
http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/cattle.html

Texas Trail Photos – possible graphics for storybooks

7. National Parks Service/Grant-Kohrs National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/grko/newtraildrives.htm

Trail Drives – good information on different jobs

8. Candy’s Corral-Texas Longhorn Reference Library
http://www.candyscorral.com/Library/HoytHistory/history4.shtml

Texas Longhorn Reference Library – Trail Drives of the 1850s

9. TexasEscapes.com-Longhorns
http://www.texasescapes.com/MikeCoxTexasTales/230-Spanish-Cattle.htm

Longhorns – Early Trail Drives from Mexico to Texas

10. TexasEscapes.com-Life on the Trail
http://www.texasescapes.com/DEPARTMENTS/Guest_Columnists/Times_past/LifeOnTheTrail.htm

Life on the Trail – A Historical Account

11. Lone Hand History of the Old West
http://www.lonehand.com/chuckwagon_central.htm

Chuck Wagon Central – Information about Chuck Wagons used on Cattle Drives

12. Cybersoup’s The Wild West
http://www.thewildwest.org/cowboys/cow_west_facts/index.html

Cowboy & Western Facts – even Trail Recipes

13. UT Library
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/atlas_texas/texas_frontier_forts.jpg

Great map of Cattle Drive Trails

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