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CHISHOLM TRAIL TO BE Sl DESIGNATED HIGHWAYAuthorization has beengiven by the State Highway Commission to the Chisholm jj! Trail Association to name two; highways as Chisholm Trails iSand mark and designate them appropriately. Longhorn steer insignias will designate the i J] State routes and appropriate J!markers will be placed at historic spots.The Texas sections of therClt;Sic;main Chisholm Trail are said to follow Highway No. 2 from clt;Red river to Fort Worth,Waco, Georgetown and Austin to San Antonio, while the Ile western trail leads from San 0 Antonio to Quanah, via Fred-jl* ericksburg, Mason, Brady, * Colemam Abilene and Stamford to the Red river. i 'cJAccording to a competent;authority, the name was given to this trail by Jesse Chisholm, a half-breed Cherokee Indian, of Wichita, Kansas, because he had made I many trips from Kansas into! ' the Indian Territory over the^'?9siroute. Federal troops had taken the route at the openingof the Civil War in going toj^ Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Tex- |S as extensions of the trail used ^• bv cattlemen getting theirstock to market emphasizedthe importance of the routes, jhAccording to George W. a Saunders,' of San Antonio, president of the Old-Time 'lt; ^siClTrail Drivers’ Association, J.G. McCoy, an Illinois man, who built a stock yard at Abi- n lene, Kansas, and was making a bid for Texas cattle, con-jb tracted with Jesse Chisholm ato nlow a furrow across part h of Kansas and part of the In- i ^dian Territory to guide the j ^ herds of the Texans. SThe original trail did not |n | come south of Red river. ja I Drovers from the Rio Grande u | country and drovers from the h!eastern coastal plains of Tex- aas made for the Chisholm fur-jP row, and soon the Chisholmjt; Trail had a well-defined annex Pto its southern extremity—an i» annex longer than the orig-jti inal trail itself. The annex.'»like a river, had many prongs |hsprangling out from the;hsouth, but all pointing north aand converging. And quite i naturally the southern annex nalso took the name of Chisholm Trail. |GThe Texans who went upthe trail in the late sixties andL*the early seventies cr their cattle at Red river sta- Jtion in Montague county to n point into the trace laid out;C by Jesse Chisholm. Many t prongs converged into the.T main trail that crossed at Red tlRiver Station. The longest tlbranch, over which the most Scattle w’ere driven can consis-etentlv be called the main iiibranch. This branch may be ^ said to have started at Mata- tlmoras, Mexico, and then, o! after crossing the Rio Grande g near Brownsville, to havecome by the most direct route affording water to San AntiVCi
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Rockdale Reporter and Messenger
Rockdale, Texas, US
Thu, Jul 03, 1930
Page 15
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