Welcome To Abilene 1/30 Figure - King and Country (CD041)
Features
- Figure is approximately 2.5" tall
- All metal construction
- Hand painted and ready for display
In 1867, the Kansas Pacific Railway Company (Union Pacific today) pushed westwards through Abilene where a local resident built a hotel and stockyards capable of holding up to 2,000 head of cattle and stables for cattle drive horses. At the same time, the railroad constructed a ‘spur-line' that enabled cattle cars to be rapidly loaded and sent on to various destinations in the Northern States.As business the town grew quickly and became the first, great ‘Cow Town' of the West. Here you can see one of the cowboys who has just driven a large herd of cattle all the way up from Texas to the railhead here in Abilene.It's not surprising that after many long weeks on the trail and in the saddle he rests against one of the local sign posts marking the cowtown's city limits.
