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The
Chisholm Trail
The Chisholm Trail was a trail used in the late
19th century to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas
railheads. The trail stretched from South Texas across the Red River,
and on to the railhead of the Kansas Pacific Railway in Abilene, Kansas,
where the cattle would be sold and shipped eastward.
The trail is named for Jesse Chisholm who had built several trading
posts in what is now western Oklahoma before the American Civil War. He
died in 1868, too soon ever to drive cattle on the trail.
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