Fortis et fideli nihil difficile.

“To the brave and faithful man

nothing is difficult.”

“Uva Uvam Videndo Varia Fit.”

Motto of Call’s Hat Creek Cattle Company

“A grape other grapes seeing

changes.”Meaning: “A grape is changed by

living with other grapes.”

We are changed by the lives around us.

1. You ride with an outlaw, you die with

an outlaw.

2. “It ain’t dyin’ I’m talkin’ about… it’s

livin!”

Cattle Drive Project

Fiction-Non-Fiction Unit

English 1In a Plastic Report Cover include

the following Products:

1. Trail Drive Map2. Cowboy Recruit Poster and Newspaper

Ad3. Cattle Company Motto and Brand

4. Trail Drive Short Story5. Trail “Rules”

6. Cattle Company Brochure

Honors:In a Plastic Report Cover include the following

Products:

1. Trail Drive Map2. Cowboy Recruit Poster and Newspaper Ad

3. Cattle Company Motto and Brand4. Trail Drive Short Story

5. Cattle Company Brochure6. Cattle Baron or Cattle Trail Paper7. Cattle Company Financial Plan

8. Cowboy Songs or Cowboy Cook Book

Trail Drive MapCreate a Map of Texas and Contiguous States that your trail drive would travel through. Include supply towns, watering holes, grass land, geological formations, and Native American Tribal areas on your

way to either the rail head in Abilene, Kansas or any other railhead on the map.

Cowboy Recruit Poster and Newspaper Ad

Create a Recruiting Poster (on letter-sized paper) to attract cowboys to work for your

cattle company on an upcoming trail drive. Create a 4”x5” Newspaper Ad for cowhands to work your upcoming trail

drive.

Poster: Include a graphic, slogan, pay and benefits, contact information, motto.

Ad: Include motto, pay and benefits, risks, contact information, “call to action,” simple

map

Motto and BrandCreate a Motto for your Cattle

Company as discussed in class. On the same paper, draw a brand for your company you would use on your cattle and horses. Include a paragraph on each that would a description of the symbolism.

Trail Drive Short StoryWrite a short story of a cow, horse, or dog

of a day in the life on a trail drive from their perspective. Follow the plot cycle and

use five clear literary devices.

This needs to be edited using ratiocination by a peer and the final

copy hand written in blue/black ink or typed.

Trail Ride RulesSearch on your device for historical trail

drive “rules.” Using those as an example, write a list of your own to fit your Cattle

Company.

Cattle Company BrochureCreate a trifold, color brochure that explains and/or

shows the motto and brand of your Cattle Company, Dangers and Plans Cowboys will face on

the Trail Drive, Jobs, Employees and Pay, and a Time Line of the Trail.

Adding a copy of your Trail Map would be a plus.

Honors Assignments: Complete the previous assignments, then

complete an Historic Cattle Barron or Cattle Trail 1000 word essay after research.

Choose one of the two creative assignments to complete with the research paper.1. Cattle Company Financial Plan

2. 2 Original Cowboy songs3. Cattle Drive Cookbook (5 recipes)

Historic Cattle Ranchers/Barons:John Chisholm

Charles Goodnight Oliver Loving

Wagoner RanchKing RanchXIT Ranch

Billy the Kid and Pat Garret

Texas Cattle Trails:Goodnight and Loving

ChisholmWesternSedalia