Cattlemen of Brown County
John Jefferson Driskill was a Texas cattleman in the 1870’s in Brown County. His sons; John Wiley, Jesse Lincoln, and Samuel Lafayette, were also cattlemen. Cattle ranchers led herds that sometimes numbered from 1000 to 6000 head. They went up the Chisum Trail that John Chisum blazed out and other trails and crossed the Red River, to go to Western Kansas. They had to deal with stampedes, storms, dry weather, lack of water, and Native Americans that sometimes wanted to steal the cattle or get them by threat of harm.
