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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TIG_the-last-land-rush-historic-project-historical_Caldwell-KS.html
The Last Land Rush
On September 16, 1893, 15,000 land hungry whites gathered here to make "the Run" into the Cherokee Outlet to the south. Caldwell was 1 of 9 places where over 100,000 potential settlers awaited cavalry soldiers' gunshots to st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TGL_the-chisholm-trail-historical_Mayfield-KS.html
Between 1867 and 1876 more than two million Texas Longhorns were driven North past here to Kansas railroad towns for shipment East. At Slate Creek Crossing 5 miles northeast a trading post, 1869, was the first building in Sumner County. Over this …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TGI_chisholm-trail-in-sumner-county-historical_Belle-Plaine-KS.html
The Chisholm Trail probably began as a buffalo migration route, linking summer pastures in the Central Plains to winter pastures in Texas. American Indians followed the buffalo and shared the route with U.S. explorers, who mapped it in the 1850s. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXEI_caldwell-and-the-chisholm-trail_Caldwell-KS.html
A mile southeast of this marker the Chisholm Trail entered Kansas. It took its name from Jesse Chisholm, Indian trader, whose route lay between the North Canadian river and present Wichita. In 1867 it was extended from the Red river to Abilene whe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7H7_ghost-riders-of-the-chisholm-trail_Caldwell-KS.html
The silhouette on the bluff to the East, astride the actual Chisholm Trail, was completed in 1995 after hundreds of hours of volunteered labor, land, and donations. The "Ghosts" will forever remind us of the great cattle drives, 1866 - 1887, when …