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Definition of Chisholm trail
1. Noun. A former cattle trail from San Antonio in Texas to Abilene in Kansas; not used after the 1880s.
Group relationships: Kansas, Ks, Sunflower State, Lone-star State, Texas, Tx
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chisholm Trail
Literary usage of Chisholm trail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Ballads and Songs by Louise Pound (1922)
"76 THE OLD chisholm trail Come along, boys, and listen to my tale, ... I woke up
one morning on the old chisholm trail, Rope in my hand and a cow by the ..."
2. A Book of Ballads, Old and New by Guido Hermann Stempel (1917)
"fc i COME along, boys, and listen to my tale, I'll tell you of my troubles on
the old chisholm trail. Coma ti yi youpy, youpy ya, youpy ya, Coma ti yi youpy ..."
3. A History of Oklahoma by Joseph Bradfield Thoburn, Isaac Mason Holcomb (1908)
"HE chisholm trail. —In the spring of 1865 Jesse Chisholm* laid out a trail from
... It soon became known as the chisholm trail and afforded a wagon route to ..."
4. Songs of the Cowboys by Nathan Howard Thorp (1921)
"THE OLD chisholm trail The origin of this song is unknown. There are several
thousand verses to it — the more whiskey the more verses. ..."
5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1901)
"A Stampede on the chisholm trail BY Ë. A. BRININSTOOL Drawings by /.. Maynard
Di.von The chisholm trail was one of the old-time cattle trails which ran from ..."
6. A Ranchman's Recollections: An Autobiography in which Unfamiliar Facts by Frank S. Hastings (1921)
"According to WP Anderson the Old chisholm trail was named after a ... Siringo in
A Lone Star Cowboy gives the following as the origin of the chisholm trail. ..."
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