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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner
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Mural by artist Richard Haas in Sundance Square recalls the days of cattle drives along the Chisholm Trail.
After the war, Jack fought Comanches and outlaws in Texas and became a cowboy going up the Chisholm Trail with longhorn herds bound for Abilene.
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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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The Chisholm Trail began near Cuero, and DeWitt County remains the most densely populated cattle county in Texas.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The Texas Historical Commission (THC) has produced Chisholm Trail brochures through its existing programs, which have been very effective.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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It was named after Jesse Chisholm (1805-1868), a trader who cut the trail by carting a heavy load all the way from Oklahoma to Kansas.
The mural commemorates the Fort Worth segment of the Chisholm Trail cattle drives of 1867-1875.
The Chisholm Trail, one of the country's most famous historic cattle trails, runs right through Marlow, within feet of the Marlow Centennial Monument.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The Chisholm Trail was a route over which herds of cattle were driven from Texas, across the Coyote Confederation northward to railheads in Kansas.
It marks of the intersection of ancient migratory trails of the Indians and the buffalo, later called the Chisholm Trail and the Emigrant Trail.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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The Chisholm Trail and other cattle routes were made through Oklahoma between 1866 and 1889.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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This leaf collection was prepared as a requirement for Honors Biology at Chisholm Trail Academy in Keene, Texas.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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The Chisholm Trail , ( more on the Chisholm Trail ) one of the cattle trails from Texas, is also close by, to the west.
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