<P> Texas ranchers using the Chisholm Trail started on the route from either the Rio Grande or San Antonio , joined the Chisholm Trail at the Red River of the South at the border between Texas and Oklahoma , and continued to the railhead of the Kansas Pacific Railway in Abilene , Kansas , where the cattle would be sold and shipped eastward . The trail is named for Jesse Chisholm , a half - Cherokee trader from Tennessee , who originally created the trail as a means to transport his goods from one trading post to another . </P>
<P> Texas ranchers using the Chisholm Trail started on the route from either the Rio Grande or San Antonio , joined the Chisholm Trail at the Red River of the South at the border between Texas and Oklahoma , and continued to the railhead of the Kansas Pacific Railway in Abilene , Kansas , where the cattle would be sold and shipped eastward . The trail is named for Jesse Chisholm , a half - Cherokee trader from Tennessee , who originally created the trail as a means to transport his goods from one trading post to another . </P>
where does the chisholm trail start and end
where does the chisholm trail start and end
Red River of the South at the border between Texas and Oklahoma , and continued to the railhead of the Kansas Pacific Railway in Abilene , Kansas
Red River of the South at the border between Texas and Oklahoma , and continued to the railhead of the Kansas Pacific Railway in Abilene , Kansas