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The Chisholm Trail

by | Feb 6, 2017 | Features & Gunfights

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In 1867, cattle-shipping entrepreneur Joseph G. McCoy of the McCoy Brothers of Springfield, Illinois, went to Kansas to find a town on the Kansas Pacific Railroad and discovered the village of Abilene, on the western edge of the state’s farm settlements. With permission from the state governor, McCoy built chutes and stockyards next to the rail line in the town, and soon Texas cattlemen were driving their longhorn herds to Abilen


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