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Show Blazed Trails Oliver Loving (1813-1867), early trail blazer, was born in Hopkins county, Ky., later moved to Texas and took up his home In Jack county. Like many early settlers he engaged in cattle raising. Loving made the first drive of cattle to Chicago from Texas in 1858. After the Civil war he and a partner made several trips north and then tried a drive to the western market at Santa Fe, N. M. This proved an ill-fated venture ai he and his trail companion com-panion were set upon by Comapche Indians and Loving was wounrled. Believing himself to be fatally stricken, he forced his companion to leave him. He survived his wounds. |