The First Cattle Drive of the 101 Ranch
It was mid-winter in 1870 when George W. Miller’s travel party reached the hamlet of Newtonia in Southwestern, Missouri. They were not even a third of the way from Kentucky to their destination of California, the location he sought to begin a cattle ranch in a time when livestock raising had become a principal livelihood during the country’s Westward expansion.
Miller’s plan was to follow the…