Beginning in early 1868 and lasting only slightly more than a decade, the great cattle drives over the Chisholm Trail became the largest movement of animals in history as eight million Longhorn cattle followed the trail across Texas and Oklahoma to Kansas and the railroads. The midpoint of the trail ran along the west bank of this creek through what is now Redbud Park. By 1878 the numbers had fallen to a mere trickle, and the drives ended completely in the early 1880s, but not before luring the adventurous Marlow family to live on the banks of Wildhorse Creek. On the Chisholm Trail, a new word was born: cowboy.