Ellsworth ? Four-hundred head of Texas longhorn cattle lumbered down the main drag of the small central-Kansas town of Ellsworth this weekend as a 200-mile cattle drive came to an end.

The drive started three weeks ago when about 200 cattle were gathered in a pasture south of Caldwell near the Kansas-Oklahoma border. The herd grew as the drive continued on the old Cox Cattle Trail.

Organizers said extreme drought in southern Kansas meant the herd had to be smaller at the beginning and grow as the drive got into grass country.

People with experience driving cattle helped inexperienced greenhorns who paid to ride along.

The Hutchinson News reported that a large crowd turned out Saturday as the Kansas 150th Anniversary Cattle Drive came to end. Some dressed in period garb.