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Hidden : 4/6/2008

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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. A local dog has moved the final... see blow for updated final

Chisholm Trail Cache Series 011

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 # 1 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 88feet, 66 degrees (was 436 feet at 88) 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.

Continued at: http://www.vlib.us/old_west/trails/cthist.html

Links: (in no particular order:)

http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1936/36_1_rossel.htm

Chisholm Trail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Kansas Journey Teacher's Resource Package supplement

The Oklahoma Historical Society's Chisholm Trail Historical Museum

Along The Chisholm Trail

BlogOklahoma.us - Exploring Oklahoma's History - Blog

Chapter Seven, Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest by Joseph G. McCoy

Chisholm Trail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chisholm Trail Chili

Chisholm Trail Route, Pioneer Trails Old West Kansas Trails