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Abilene kicked off their celebrations last September with their Trails, Rails and Tales: Spirit of the Chisholm Trail event that included a parade with Longhorn cattle being through the city streets. The proclamations from each state will be exchanged at noon on Saturday, May 6th. The Oklahoma proclamation riders will meet the final Kansas rider, Sam Wylie, at the intersection of Main and 1st Street in Caldwell.

The hand-off locations and times will be announced closer to the date. It will be handed off to a fresh rider about every twenty miles as it makes its way through Newton, Wichita, Clearwater and Mayfield. On April 29 that proclamation will begin a journey along the Chisholm Trail from Abilene to Caldwell, carried in a saddlebag by a horseback rider. Vance of the Chisholm Trail to Kansas was signed recently by Gov. On Septemthe Texas cattle infected the the first rail car load pulled So the cattle drives pushing for cattle drives into began once again, first roll- Abilene and the first one ing into Sedalia, Missouri, reached the newly estabwhere the railroad had ar- lished cowtown in August, rived. they fetched just $2 a head Joseph McCoy began in Texas. After the war, those to be driven into the state cattle could bring up to $40 west of the sixth principal per head in Chicago, when meridian. Meanwhile, the law but repealed a portion of declaring the historical releherds of Texas Longhorns it in 1867 to allow the cattle grew. So its are planned all along the east, as Union soldiers Missouri passed a law ban- the Chisholm Trail to comblocked shipping along the ning Texas cattle from the memorate its historical sigGulf of Mexico and Missis- state. The Civil War had put a stay Fever, in some areas wiping Celebrations and exhibon the shipment of beef to out 100% of the herds. local breeds with Spanish out of Abilene headed east. Courtesy photo to the beef-hungry east coast. Governor Brownback recently signed a proclamation celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Chisholm Trail. There was profit in getting those cattle from pastures in Texas to the railheads that would ship them “Come along boys and listen to my tale, I’ll tell of my troubles on the old Chisholm Trail…” Those troubles could include raging river crossings, prairie storms and hold-ups by thieves. According to the Kansas State Historical Society’s Kansapedia, experts have found as many as 1000 verses of the song, each added by a lonesome, bored cowboy as he drove the herd slowly, giving the cattle time to graze and put on pounds. Much of its fame may have been gained by cowboys singing the song, The Old Chisholm Trail. A portion of the cattle trail followed Chisholm’s trade routes, thus earning the name of the Chisholm Trail. Chisholm himself was an Indian trader, guide and interpreter who built trading posts in the Oklahoma Territory. Celebrations planned all along Chisholm Trail for 150th anniversaryīy Donna Sullivan, Editor Jesse Chisholm never drove a herd of cattle, yet the trail named after him has become perhaps the most famous of cattle trails and is the centerpiece of celebrations from Texas, through Oklahoma and up to Kansas, honoring its 150th anniversary.

History of jc higgins tubular glass fly rods