1. “Amazing Race” Cattle Drive

2. You’re HIRED!
You have been promoted to Trail Boss. Review your notes because you have great responsibility now.
4 top ranches – You will represent one. Which one will you work for?
Research the trails. Which one do you think is best for you and your men?
When will you leave?

3. The Rules Guard and protect your data sheet!
Record everything that happens to you along your drive.
Get here early every day…there might be rewards!
Be careful of revenge! Paybacks hurt!
Come prepared each day to work on your project.
Have fun and BE CREATIVE!

4. Which Trail will you choose?
Chisolm Trail
Goodnight-Loving Trail
Sedalia Trail
Western Trail

6. Trail Background
Texas ranchers using the Chisholm Trail started on that route from either the Rio Grande or San Antonio, Texas, and went to the railhead of the Kansas Pacific Railway in Abilene, Kansas, where the cattle would be sold and shipped eastward.
Goodnight-Loving Trail, sometimes called Goodnight Trail, historic cattle trail that originated in Young county, western Texas, U.S. The trail ran southwest to connect with the Pecos River and thence up the river valley to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and north to the railhead at Denver, Colorado.
The Sedalia started in the middle of the Nueces river and ended in Sedalia Missouri. The Sedalia cattle drive started in the middle of the Nueces River. In total they traveled 800 miles North East into Sedalia Missouri.
The Great Western Cattle Trail - also known as the Dodge City Trail and the Old Texas Trail - was utilized from 1874 for the movement of cattle to markets East. The trail began at Bandera, Texas and ended, most often, in Dodge City, Kansas.