Chisholm Trail Cattle Drive 2007 Canvas Print

Oklahoma cowboys keep the longhorns moving as they head through Duncan on the final day of the first week journey. This was the 2007 Oklahoma Centennial Chisholm Trail Cattle Drive. The heritage herd started at the Texas/Oklahoma border and it took them four weeks to move north to Kansas. This photograph was shot on Chisholm Trail Parkway just as the herd neared the Chisholm Trail Heritage Center.

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Southern Photographers 11/01/2017

Everyone needs a once in a lifetime experience. You know the kind. One that leaves a lasting impression and even changes how you look at life, how you look at your surroundings. I wrote that in a book I published in 2009, "Riding the Chisholm Trail: Once in a Lifetime" after I had that experience that changed the way I looked at the world around me. Now 10 years later, that single day and the two years it took me to edit the images and write the stories in that book, I realize it continues to impact me. It's given me a new appreciation of our country's history and what it took for our pioneers, my ancestors, to forge what we now enjoy and many times undervalue. While it took me most of my life to appreciate these things, reflection...