Chisholm trail

Map of the Chisholm Trail

- The largening economy and population was demanding beef after the Civil War. - A new type of cattle named the Texas Longhorn was bred. It had horns of tremendous length and could withstand creul...

Stampede mural, 1940, oil on canvas, 5½ by 16 feet. El Paso, Texas, artist and writer Tom Lea (1907 – 2001) painted this mural for the then-new post office in Odessa, Texas./Photography: On loan at the Ellen Noël Art Museum/Courtesy Tom Lea Institute We celebrate the 150th anniversary of the famed Chisholm Trail by getting to know its historical namesake, Jesse Chisholm, a trader who blazed a route from Wichita, Kansas, across the Indian Territory to the Red River — but never drove cattle…

Monument Hill at Addington; a Chisholm Trail memorial.

I am wondering about the Chisholm Trail today because on this day back in 1868 the founder of that trail, Jesse Chisholm, passed away bringing an interesting time in U.S. western history to an end. He died of food poisoning, accidental, I am sure. Jesse Chisholm was born in Tennessee (wasn't Davy Crockett born in that state, too). His father was Scottish and his mother was a Cherokee. He was not a cattleman, although the trail named for him later became a major cattle trail from Texas to…

***Pick up your FREE Activity Pack*** On our list of 'places to visit soon' is the Chisholm Trail Museum in Duncan, OK. We're going to start studying it ahead of time, and are sharing the unit with you now, too! The Chisholm Trail was a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland, from ranches in Texas to railroads in Kansas. The portion of the trail marked by Jesse Chisholm went from his southern trading post, near the Red River, to his northern trading post near Kansas…

Great great grandpa drove the chuckwagon

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