But withal it was the kindliest and most generous time, alike the most contented and the boldest time, in all the history of our frontiers.

There never was a better life than that of the cowman who had a good range on the Plains and cattle enough to stock his range.

There never will be found a better man's country in all the world than that which ran from the Missouri up to the low foothills of the Rockies.
The lower cities took their tribute of the northbound cattle for quite a time.

Wichita, Coffeyville, and other towns of lower Kansas in turn made bids for prominence as cattle marts.

Agents of the Chicago stockyards would come down along the trails into the Indian Nations to meet the northbound herds and to try to divert them to this or that market as a shipping-point.