[DOC] [TLE] Chisholm Trail - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society [PAR] Cattle drives from Texas started as early as 1836 with some ranchers using this 
method to get their cattle to railheads so they could sell them for beef, hides and 
tallow. ... An entrepreneur, Joseph McCoy, took advantage of the change in the 
Kansas law to start campaigning for cattle drives to the small town of Abilene. [DOC] [TLE] Cattle drives in the United States - Wikipedia [PAR] Cattle drives were a major economic activity in the 19th-century American West, 
particularly between 1866 and 1886, when 20 million cattle were herded from 
Texas to railheads in Kansas, .... By 1867, a cattle shipping facility owned by 
Joseph G. McCoy opened in Abilene, Kansas. Built west of farm country and 
close to the... [DOC] [TLE] Joseph G. McCoy - Kansas Cattle Baron - Legends of America [PAR] Founder of the cattle trade in Kansas, originator of the Abilene Cattle Trail, and 
cattle ... In 1867 he conceived the idea of establishing a shipping depot for cattle 
at some ... He soon selected Abilene, Kansas, and opened the Abilene Trail 
through ... Texas to encourage cattle owners to drive their cattle to market in 
Abilene. [DOC] [TLE] Texas Cattle Drives - Genealogy Trails [PAR] Cattle were driven across the Chisholm and other trails to cow towns such as ... 
them Joseph G. McCoy of Illinois, sought ways of supplying it with Texas cattle. In 
the spring of 1867 he persuaded Kansas Pacific officials to lay a siding at .... Of 
the principal routes by which Texas longhorn cattle were taken afoot to railheads 
to... [DOC] [TLE] Cattle Trails National Historic Trail - National Park Service [PAR] Mar 20, 2012 ... The Dodge City or Western Cattle Drive Trail, beginning in Texas and .... Another 
key topic in the selection and appropriateness of historic ..... Gibson, Indian 
Territory; and from there on to a number of towns (St. Joseph, Kansas City, ..... 
Chisholm and Western cattle trails, therefore, is from 1867 to 1884. [DOC] [TLE] Chisholm Trail Tribute Rifle | America Remembers [PAR] Joseph McCoy was a cattle buyer in Illinois and came up with a profitable means 
of ... Abilene, Kansas, where the Kansas Pacific Railroad had established a 
railhead. ... In 1867, McCoy advertised his shipping terminal in Abilene and 
invited Texas ... For this Tribute, we have selected a firearm that is often referred 
to as The... [DOC] [TLE] Head 'em Up, Move 'em Out: Cowtown's First Freeway | Hometown ... [PAR] Jun 24, 2016 ... In Kansas in 1867 the Union Pacific railroad had just laid track westward ... 
Technically the large feeder trail in Texas was known as the McCoy Trail after 
Joseph McCoy encouraged Texas ranchers to drive their herds north ... herders 
moved their cattle through Fort Worth on the eastern edge of town in a... [DOC] [TLE] Ingls-Espanhol traduo:: Abilene :: dicionrio [PAR] Town (population in 2000: 6,543), Kansas, United States It lies on the Smoky Hill 
... for the overland Texas cattle drives, it took the business of the previous 
railhead, ... Joseph McCoy, a cattle entrepreneur and later mayor of Abilene, 
selected it ... the Texas cattle drives in 1867, the year the Kansas Pacific Railroad 
reached... [DOC] [TLE] American History - Longhorn Country - Electric Scotland [PAR] The state of Texas maintains a herd of Longhorns in select states. ... toward 
Baxter Springs, the Kansas Legislature and an Illinois entrepreneur began to 
offer them ... The heyday of cattle drives began in 1867, the year Joseph G. 
McCoy set up a ... Robert R. Dykstra, in his book The Cattle Towns, says McCoy 
promised area... [DOC] [TLE] 1000+ images about Cattle Drives on Pinterest | Cattle, Oklahoma ... [PAR] Explore Loretta Spleth's board "Cattle Drives" on Pinterest, the world's catalog of 
ideas. ... Joseph McCoy, an Illinois stockman, believed these cattle could be 
herded ... In 1867 the first drives were made up the Chisholm Trail and during the 
next ... century to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads
. [DOC] [TLE] /  Abilene

Question: In 1867 entrepreneur Joseph McCoy selected this Kansas town as the railhead for Tex. cattle drives
Answer: Abilene