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Cattle trail

noun

A trail over which cattle were driven to market.

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"Cattle trail" Quotes from Famous Books

... post was the first habitation of civilization in all the Great Northwest. Not the railway, not the cattle trail, not the path of forward-marching empire purposely hewing a way through the wilderness, opened the West. It was the fur trade that found the West. It was the fur trade that explored the West. It was the fur trade that wrested the West from savagery. The beginning was in ...

— Pathfinders of the West • A. C. Laut

... and preserving the "Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp," my friend John Lomax has performed a real service to American literature and to America. No verse is closer to the soil than this; none more realistic in the best sense of that much-abused word; none more truly interprets ...

— Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp • Various

... rose to his feet. The pony, leaving a long furrow in the side of the mountain, caught himself on the narrow ledge of a cattle trail, turned to the left, and disappeared ...

— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White