Lonestar Lickskillet Volume Two

CATTLE TRAILS: There were (2) historic Trails almost forgotten in songs and western lore around the campfire...cattle trails from Texas to New Orleans Louisiana THE OPELOUSAS TRAIL AND THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL. THE OPELOUSAS TRAIL retraced and ran parallel to the OLD SPANISH TRAIL for (102) years before rail service was completed with the first rail bridge over the Sabine River at Orange Texas that linked Houston Texas with New Orleans Louisiana THE CRESCENT CITY for the first time. Their decades of the accumulation of cattle tracks have been silently forgotten as Texass oldest and longest surviving trails.HUNDLEY WIGGINS Great Grandfather of Shamrock Shelley Cleaver owner of over (6000) acres of prime Cotton and Cattle land in East Texas supported financially a Confederate battalion of Rebels in the way of uniforms guns ammunition horses and supplies for (3) states on Texass borders. When the South disappeared with the Ashes of its memory in the wind so did the empires of the land. Carpetbaggers like vultures preyed on ruined Large landowners and Northern money bought and owned what they wanted all along...the grandeur and wealth of a time short lived but elegant prosperous and gone.