Rawhide!

Rawhide!

Gettin’ along little dogies up the Western Trail is still a fun road trip today. By the 1880s, time was catching up with the Western Trail—the cattle-drive highway from Texas to Kansas/Nebraska/Dakotas/Colorado/Wyoming/Montana. Just as time—and angry farmers and stock...
The Honeymoon Trail

The Honeymoon Trail

A path for newlywed Mormons was a strange route. One of the lesser-known Western trails is one that Mormon pioneers followed out of Utah starting in the 1870’s. It was called the Hamblin Trail and it led across the Arizona Strip. And it wasn’t really for cattle....