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Trail Drivers Memorial in San Antonio Promises Texas Honor
An article profiles the planned $100,000 memorial in San Antonio honoring trail drivers who moved 9.8 million cattle and 1 million horses to rail hubs, led by Gutzon Borginum and the Old Trail Drivers' Association. It notes the fundraising efforts, the association's history, and the enduring book The Trail Drivers of Texas chronicling the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AN Antonio
Alamo
Lone Star
Gutzon Borginum
Stone Mountain Fame
San Antonio
Old Trail Drivers’ Association
Southwest
Texas
Kansas
Old Train Drivers’ Association
Charley” Goodnight
Goodnight Ranch
Catalo” Goodnight
George” Glenn
Amanda Burks
Chisholm Trail
Abilene
Kan
Taiste Lockhart
Emerson Hough
George W. Saunders
Texas Cattle Raisers’ Association
Saunders
Houston
Fetble
R. R. Russell
San Antonio Memorial
Cpic
J. Marvin Hunter
Dokesbury Press
Nashville
Tenn
J. Frank Doble
Hinkluyt
Kingsley
Samuel Pepys
Pepys
Andy Adams
Gulf of Mexico
Mexico
Dominion of
Canada
Charles Siringo
Eugene Manlove Rhodes
William McLeod Raine
J. Frank Davis
E. F E. Harriman
Hugh Pendexter
Charles M. Russell
The
Hough
Trail Drivers
Chisholm
Jesse Chisholm
Junction City
Col
J. J. Meyers
Joseph H. McCoy
Illinois
Meyers
McCoy
Red River