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Chisholm Trail definition

Chis·holm Trail (c̸hiz′əm)

cattle trail from San Antonio, Tex., to Abilene, Kans.: important from 1865 until the 1880s

Etymology: after Jesse Chisholm (1806?-68), U.S. frontier scout who established it

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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