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Place Name
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Chisholm Trail
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Place Status (Type)
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trail
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Location
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Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
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unknown
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Longitude
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unknown
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Chisholm Trail
, route over which vast herds of cattle were
driven from N Texas to the railheads in Kansas after the Civil War.
Named for Jesse Chisholm, a part-Cherokee trader who, in the spring of
1866, drove his wagon, heavily loaded with buffalo hides,
from N Texas through what is now Okla., to Wichita, Kansas (KS); the S
terminus was Abilene, Texas (TX). For the 2 decades that followed, hundreds
of thousands of Texas longhorns were driven over the trail annually.
The development of RRs and wire fencing ended the trail's use, and it
became the subject of Western folklore.
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