page_title: Great Western Cattle Trail
hierarchical_section_title: Great Western Cattle Trail
caption_attribution_description: English: historical map of cattle drives north from Texas
context_page_description: The Great Western Cattle Trail was used during the 19th century for movement of cattle and horses to markets in eastern and northern states.
  It is also known as the Western Trail, Fort Griffin Trail, Dodge City Trail, Northern Trail and Texas Trail. It replaced the Chisholm trail when it closed. While it wasn't as well known, it was greater in length, reaching rail-heads up in Kansas and Nebraska and carried longhorns and horses to stock open-range ranches in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, and two provinces in Canada. It took almost one hundred days to reach their destination.
  The Great Western Trail went south of and roughly parallel to the Chisholm Trail into Kansas. The cattle were taken to towns which were located on major railroads and delivered north to establish ranches. Although rail lines were built in Texas, the northern cattle drives continued, because Texas rail prices made it more profitable to trail them north.
context_section_description: The Great Western Cattle Trail was used during the 19th century for movement of cattle and horses to markets in eastern and northern states. 
  It is also known as the Western Trail, Fort Griffin Trail, Dodge City Trail, Northern Trail and Texas Trail. It replaced the Chisholm trail when it closed. While it wasn't as well known, it was greater in length, reaching rail-heads up in Kansas and Nebraska and carried longhorns and horses to stock open-range ranches in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, and two provinces in Canada. It took almost one hundred days to reach their destination.
  The Great Western Trail went south of and roughly parallel to the Chisholm Trail into Kansas. The cattle were taken to towns which were located on major railroads and delivered north to establish ranches. Although rail lines were built in Texas, the northern cattle drives continued, because Texas rail prices made it more profitable to trail them north.
caption: Map of major cattle trails with the Great Western Trail.
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