Download or read book The Trail to Ogallala written by Benjamin Capps and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel won the 1964 Spur Award for best western novel of the year. It is a realistic account of a cattle drive involving 3000 head along the Western Cattle Trail from a ranch about 50 or 60 miles west of San Antonio, Texas, to Ogallala, Nebraska, in the late 1870s or early 1880s. It is obvious that this Texan author did research in preparation for this story.