The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy's Great Gamble Volume 3

by James E. Sherow

Book Overview

One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of Texas Longhorns coming up the Chisholm Trail--and the youngest brother, Joseph, saw how a middleman could become wealthy in the process. This is the story of how that gamble paid off, transforming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806160535
• ISBN13: 9780806160535
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"