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Nov 24, 2018 · The name “Chisholm Trail,” though applied periodically to other routes, is most commonly associated with a trail leading from around San Antonio north through Austin, Waco and Fort Worth before crossing the Red River at Red River Station in Montague County, then roughly paralleling present-day U.S. Highway 81 through Oklahoma and onward to ...
Jun 27, 2016 · The Chisholm Trail was a series of trails that led from ranches around San Antonio, Texas, crossing the Red River though current-day Oklahoma to the expanding Kansas railheads of Abilene, Ellsworth, and Dodge City.
Apr 25, 2017 · By far the most popular song chronicling the trail drives, the Chisholm Trail moniker for all trails stuck. In truth, there were four main trails: the Shawnee, the Chisholm, the Western, and the Goodnight-Loving—and many other minor trails of various names.
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May 18, 2018 · CHISHOLM TRAIL, a cattle trail leading north from Texas, across Oklahoma, to Abilene, Kansas. The southern extension of the Chisholm Trail originated near San Antonio, Texas. From there it ran north and a little east to the Red River, which it crossed a few miles from present-day Ringgold, Texas.
Feb 6, 2017 · From Texas statehood in 1846 until 1897, Texas drovers trailed over 12 million longhorns out of their state to mining camps, to Confederate enclaves, to railheads, to northern ranches and to Indian agencies. Of the various trails used by the drovers, the Chisholm Trail remains the most famous.
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Jun 12, 2006 · The Chisholm Trial ranks in the mythology of the American West with places like the Little Bighorn, the Long Branch Saloon and Tombstone’s Boot Hill. All of these real places have become so romanticized and fictionalized over the last century that it is often difficult to separate fact from fancy.
