Chisholm Trail Cache 010 Multi-Cache
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Welcome to the Chisholm Trail series of caches. This is a series of
markers, consisting of somewhere around 121 Kansas,400 Oklahoma, and ?? Texas roadside markers. This one isn't to far from some train tracks, but there is ridge between the tracks and the final. No need to get off the road more than a few feet.
Chisholm Trail Cache Series
#10
Welcome to the Chisholm Trail series of caches.
This is a series of markers, consisting of somewhere around 121
Kansas, 400 Oklahoma, and ?? Texas roadside
markers. Appears that the Boy Scouts were instrumental in
placing many of these markers over the years. At least around
Wichita, Ks, someone(?) is still maintaining many of these markers,
as many of these are freshly painted.
If would you like to help us cache the entire Chisholm Trail,
please do! We strongly prefer that the cachers that would like to
be a part of this series to hide non-micro caches. In some
cases, it will require some creative cache placement, like an
offset cache, or a projection from the marker. We realize that
there are other Chisholm Trail caches, which is great, but to be a
part of this series, it will need to be a new or renamed
cache. This Chisholm Trail cache # 10 isn't the start
of the Chisholm Trail, but the first of the
series.
Everyone can help with this series. If you can, please
consider placing a cache in the series. Contact us and we
will assign a number and list you in the series, and post your
cache listing here..
Thanks for making this series of caches an important part of our
history and heritage.
From the marker, project a cache to 158 feet at 107
degrees.
Chisholm Trail History -
Jesse Chisholm and Joseph McCoy
Scot-Cherokee trader Jesse Chisholm first marked the famous
Chisholm Trail in 1864 for his wagons. It started at the
confluence of the Little and Big Arkansas Rivers and went to Jesse
Chisholm's trading post, southwest of present day Oklahoma
City.
Jesse Chisholm used the trail to trade with the U.S. Army and
Native American tribes (Indians) from his trading post at the
present site of the Twin Lakes Shopping Center in Wichita to his
southern trading post in Indian Territories. The Wichita Indians
used the Chisholm Trail when they moved from their native
territory to the mouth of the Little Arkansas and also when they
returned in 1868.
Joseph G. McCoy, a cattle buyer from Illinois, was instrumental
in extending the Chisholm Trail from present day Wichita to
Abilene, Kansas, to promote and establish cattle market for
thousands of longhorn cattle from Texas. In 1867, McCoy built
stockyards that he advertised throughout Texas. Approximately
35,000 cattle followed the Chisholm Trail during the first
season to Abilene in 1867. Through Joseph
McCoy's promotional and entrepreneurial efforts Abilene became
a prosperous and famous cattletown from 1867 to 1870.
In the five years from 1867 to 1872, more than three million
head of cattle were driven up the Chisholm Trail from Texas
to Abilene.
By 1870 thousands of Texas longhorn cattle were being driven
over the Chisholm Trail to the Union Pacific (later the
Kansas Pacific) Railroad shipping center at Abilene. By 1871 as
many as 5,000 cowboys were often paid off during a single day.
Abilene became known as a rough town in the Old West.
The Chisholm Trail in Kansas generally follows a true
north route through
or near the following communities in Central Kansas: Caldwell,
Clearwater, Wichita, Newton, Goessel, Lehigh and Abilene.
As local interest waned in the cattle business in Abilene in the
early 1870s, Ellsworth and other points along the Kansas Pacific
Railroad established a market for the Texas cattle business. The
cattle business on the Chisholm Trail moved south to Newton,
Kansas in 1871 as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad built
to that point on the Chisholm Trail. Newton became one of
the most notorious and violent towns from the cattle business in
its one-year reign as a prominent cattle town.
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