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Pointin’ ‘Em North

by | Mar 20, 2019 | True West Blog

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One of the West’s earliest cattle drives occurred in 1854 when a cattleman named Tom Ponting drove a herd all the way from Texas to New York City. After the Civil War, Joseph McCoy pioneered the idea of taking them to Kansas and shipping by rail to Kansas City and Chicago. Prior to the Civil War Texas cattle were mostly for local consumption and the marketable exports were hides and ta


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