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Him* •'k'lIN M» k tin Mint Famousof 01*1 lt;.*»11o l(«alt;l«.I’ho DiOf-t faavui- of the old cattle road v a - tie* •*lt; 1.i-holm I ' ail. Ivvrth rift!n.*cl a'tor John Chisholm, an eccentric frontier 'stockman, who wastin- to drive ov**r i t. Chisholmlived at Paris, Texas, was a bachelor, and had many thousand head of rattle on the ranges in the southern part of the state.From LOO to 400 yards wide, beateninto bar*- earth, it reached over hill and through valley for over 600 miles (including its southern extension), a chocolate band amid the green pro - , uniting the North and the South.As tno marching hoofs wore it down and the wind blew and the wat« i-H vsushml the earth away, it. became* lower than the surroundingcountry and was flanked by little bank - of sand, drifted there by the of wind. Bleaching sauIIs and skeletons is of w«*ary brut* - who had perished on the journey gleamed along its borders, and her * and ther*? was a low ; f: ■: - 0'*\ ■ g wher .* - I; e cow1» \ ::.*«■ i IF- ru y * d lt;d with }. -boots on.’1, Occasionally a dilapidate dwa.m frame told of the break down,and -ootting the emerald reaches on either side were the barren circle-like “bedding grounds.” each a rooor that a gr- at her i had tie re spent a nightI o . ig ■; t of an empire p?e - d over the trail, leaving its marks for decades to come, says Scribner’s.( . »t av* it of to i.i . o- i th*’ * id**wtrough-like course, with ridges being washed down by the rains and with fences and farms of the settlers and more civilised red men intercepting it- truck, and forgets the wild and aid unis life of which it was the exponent. It was a life now outgrown, md v hit h w n* \ lt;t* again be plt; »dbk
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Graham Leader
Graham, Texas, US
Wed, Jun 07, 1893
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Max B.
USA 01 Jul 2019
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