The National Western Stock Show starts each year with a cattle drive right through the streets of downtown Denver, Colo.

The parade included horse-drawn wagons and western riding groups. But the iconic Longhorn cattle drive was missing this year — likely to avoid any injuries to the steers on cold, slippery streets.

Groups representing the historic American cattle ... the cattle drives in the history of the Old West. On Nov. 1, in Dodge City, Kansas, representatives of the Chisholm Trail, Western Cattle ...