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View the map in Google Earth (click the picture or the words) to see how far Richard King traveled from his birthplace in New York City, to Kingsville, Texas where he started his ranch.
Continue looking at different landmarks for this newsletter by traveling to the different places on the Google Earth map.
Watch the video to see how Water Pump Windmills are made, and how they work. These are mentioned in the article Ranching and the Changing Frontier.
The "running w" is the mark that ranchers on the King Ranch use to tell their cattle apart from other ranches. Below are some other ranches and their brands.
You can read more about cattle brands and how they came about my reading this article from The Handbook of Texas.
The Goodnight Loving Trail is shown in red on this map. This trail stretched from Belknap, Texas as far North as Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The Chisholm Trail went from Texas to Kansas. While it still carried a great deal of cattle states over, it did not reach a far as the Goodnight-Loving Trail did.
Week 25 citations
- Dary, and David. “CATTLE BRANDS.” The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), 12 June 2010, www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/auc01. Handbook of Texas C., T.
- “GOODNIGHT-LOVING TRAIL.” The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), 15 June 2010, www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ayg02.
- E., Donald. “CHISHOLM TRAIL.” The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), 12 June 2010, www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ayc02.
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