"That herd is going to be stampeded tonight, and they are going to run right over ours." Outlaws, rustlers, and stampedes made cattle drives a dangerous business in 1879. Still the herds kept coming, and Gabe Hawkins wanted to be one of the first on the trail that spring. Gabe had bossed his first herd at age nineteen. This would be the seventh herd he brought up the Western Trail from Texas to Dodge City. His boss for...