Texas Trail

{{Short description|Historic cattle trail in the United States}}

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The Texas Trail, another name for the Great Western Cattle Trail, was used to drive cattle from Texas to Ogallala, Nebraska. This emerged as an alternative to the Chisholm Trail.{{cite web|title=The Texas Trail |url=https://cdrhsites.unl.edu/diggingin/trailsummaries/di.sum.0004.html }}

Near Imperial, Nebraska are portions of a dry stone corral which served the trail. The corral was built c.1876; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Texas Trail Stone Corral.{{cite journal |last=Pogany |first=Erin |author2=Sarah Davis McBride |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Texas Trail Stone Corral / NeHBS # CH00-041|url=http://www.nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/chase/CH00-041_Texas_Trl_Corral.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616114654/http://nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/chase/CH00-041_Texas_Trl_Corral.pdf |url-status=usurped |archive-date=June 16, 2010 |date=May 2002 |access-date=2013-02-08}}

According to one source the last cattle drive over the trail was in 1884,{{cite web|url=http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/markers/texts/texas_trail.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040702234808/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/markers/texts/texas_trail.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=July 2, 2004 |title=The Texas Trail |publisher=Nebraska State Historical Association}} but others say there were drives later.

The XIT Ranch used the Texas Trail, connecting Tascosa to Dodge City until 1885. That was when the quarantine line was extended to southwestern Kansas.{{cite book |last1=Haley |first1=J. Evetts |title=The XIT Ranch of Texas: And the Early Days of the Llano Estacado |date=1929 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |location=Norman |isbn=0806114282 |pages=126}}