Cattle Drive Heroes and Trail Bosses
The drovers, trail bosses and pathfinders who moved millions of cattle to railheads and markets across open country.
23 profiles
Texas
- 1836-1929Charles GoodnightCowman, trail blazer and early bison conservationist, Goodnight turned the Texas Panhandle into cattle country.Texas
- 1843-1929Bose IkardBorn enslaved in Mississippi, Ikard became a skilled drover, a valued partner on the trail and a Weatherford farmer.Texas
- 1812-1867Oliver LovingLoving moved Texas herds north years before the famous railhead trails, and his partnership with Charles Goodnight…Texas
- 1844-1907John Thomas LytleFrom a Pennsylvania-born sergeant to the manager of one of Texas's largest trail-driving firms, Lytle organized the…Texas
- 1852-1937Isaac Thomas "Ike" PryorOrphaned at five, Pryor drove herds to Kansas, built the 77 Ranch, and rose to lead the American National Livestock…Texas
- 1854-1933George W. SaundersA Goliad County rancher's son became San Antonio's best-known livestock commission man and the force behind the book…Texas
- fl. 19th centuryPete StaplesFew details survive on Staples himself, but his name marks the Black cowboys who worked the first drives north from…Texas
New Zealand
- fl. 1942-1978Bill ChisholmFor 36 years he ran a blunt, closed 'kingdom in the hills' and turned worn-out Crown land into New Zealand's…New Zealand
- livingCarey Pawson-EdwardsA South Canterbury stock manager won a Rabobank management project award for rethinking how Angus beef is finished on…New Zealand
- livingJim WardHe ran Molesworth Station in Marlborough for 24 years, then resigned over wilding pines and pitched a public-ownership…New Zealand