Sentence examples for trail drives from inspiring English sources

During the great trail drives of the last century maybe as many as 5,000 black cowboys rode from the herds.

Poems were traditionally recited around the campfire during great cattle trail drives or roundups, in bunkhouses and line camps, and in bars and saloons.

The folk historian Alan Lomax says that as trail drives moved herds from Texas northward "a variety of poem and song traditions were recalled, modified, reinvented, and regionalized".

The two led several trail drives to New Orleans.

In 1965, Mr. Schreiner hit upon the idea of staging a re-enactment of a trail drive from San Antonio to Dodge City to observe the 100th anniversary of the first trail drive after the Civil War.

"Have you, uh, got a horse?" asked Ed, one of the drovers, or cattle prodders, on the trail drive.

To reach the head of the trail, drive to Lemont, five minutes from State College, and go to the end of Mount Nittany Road.

In Pawnee, Okla., I pulled up to the encampment of a cattle trail drive whose organizers I had arranged to interview.

In the middle of our interview, the trail drive folks suggested that we "ride on down" to see the longhorn cattle that they had described and that I hoped to photograph.

But modern scholarship confirms that most cowboys were no more strangers to style than modern bachelors are, frequently buying new clothes and fancy tooled boots when flush with money at the end of a trail drive.

Mr. McMurtry recalls the waning days of the trail drive (soon to be replaced by the advent of big cattle trucks) and the squabbling produced by the county's decision, in the centennial year of 1980, to name some local roads in honor of prominent pioneer families.