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Chisholm Trail

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Chisholm Trail
A former cattle trail from San Antonio, Texas, north to Abilene, Kansas. It was important from the 1860s to the 1880s, when it fell into disuse following the expansion of the railroads and the introduction of barbed-wire fencing.
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Noun1.Chisholm Trail - a former cattle trail from San Antonio in Texas to Abilene in Kansas; not used after the 1880s
Kansas, KS, Sunflower State - a state in midwestern United States
Lone-Star State, Texas, TX - the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico


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When Howard Hawks brought Borden Chase's novel The Chisholm Trail to the silver screen, he cast John Wayne in one of the Duke's few antihero roles and offered a dark study of courage stripped of justice or decency.
Red River. (McCormick's Quick Takes) by U.S. Catholic
The probability that two individuals named Melvin would both travel along the Chisholm Trail not long after the Civil War is not so great.
Stick and Whittle by B.C / The Horn Book Magazine
She was then cast opposite Wayne in Hawks' ``Red River,'' the big Chisholm Trail cattle-drive epic of 1948.
ACTRESS DRU, OF RESPIRATORY AILMENT, AT 74 by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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