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Chisholm Trail
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When the railroads moved west to the Great Plains, the "Cattle Boom"
began. Southern Texas became a major ranching area with the raising of longhorn
cattle from Mexico. Cattle was branded by the rawhides who guarded them on
horseback on the ranges.
Before the Civil War, small herds of Tex ....
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....d, a Scotch Cherokee Indian trader, who in
1866 drove a wagon through the Indian territory, known now as Oklahoma, to the
Wichita, Kansas, where he had a trading post. Cattlemen use the same trail in
the years to come, following Chisholm's wagon ruts to Abilene, Kansas, and the
railroads. The trail began below San Antonio, Texas, and stretched north for
about 1,000 miles. The main course then passed through Austin, Fort Worth, The
Indian Territory, and Wichita to Abilene. Side trails fed int.... |
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