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Definition of Cattle trail
1. Noun. A trail over which cattle were driven to market.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cattle Trail
Literary usage of Cattle trail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Internal Commerce of the United States by Joseph Nimmo (1885)
"In laying out the said cattle trail, if the trail commission deem it expedient,
... Said State cattle trail shall be surveyed, and posts of cedar or other ..."
2. Principles of Rural Economics by Thomas Nixon Carver (1911)
"The cattle trail. The quality of the grass in the northern plains is ... The line
of this drift northward came to be known as the Texas cattle trail. ..."
3. Hunting Trips of a Ranchman: Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains by Theodore Roosevelt (1885)
"The cattle trail led through great wastes, and the scores of armed cowboys who,
under one or two foremen, accompanied each herd, had often to do battle with ..."
4. Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions by Frank Wilson Blackmar (1912)
"In 1867 Joseph G. McCoy, of Illinois, settled at Abilene to engage in the cattle
trade, and he caused to be laid out a cattle trail to connect with the ..."
5. History of Oregon by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... and came unexpectedly into the cattle trail where it crossed a barren sandy
plain stretching away seven er eight miles west to the foot of Mount Hood. ..."
6. Hunting Trips of a Ranchman: Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains by Theodore Roosevelt (1885)
"The cattle trail led through great wastes, and the scores of armed cowboys who,
under one or two foremen, accompanied each herd, had often to do battle with ..."
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