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Chisholm Trail

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Noun

1. chisholm trail

a former cattle trail from San Antonio in Texas to Abilene in Kansas; not used after the 1880s

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Chisholm Trail

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

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Chisholm Trail

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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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