At the end of the Civil War, when millions of longhorns on the Texas plains lacked a market, Joseph McCoy, an Illinois stockman, saw that with the Union Pacific building west across Kansas, the cattle could be driven north for rail shipment. He built yards at Abilene and sent agents to notify Texas cattlemen. In 1867 the first drives came up the Chisholm trail, and during the next five years more than a million head were received. Abilene became the first of the wild cattle towns, where gambling places, saloons, and dance halls competed for cowboys' wages, gun fights were frequent, and several peace officers resigned. The first to bring order was Tom Smith, and more famous was Wild Bill Hickok, known as the deadliest two gun marshal on the Western frontier. President Dwight D. Eisenhower lived in Abilene from 1891 to 1911, and the Eisenhower home and museum are open to the public.