KIDS QUIZ
FAMOUS INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
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The Chisholm Trail
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The Great Western Trail
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The Texan Trail
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first cattle drive reached Abilene in August 1867. On September 5, 1867, the first load of cattle were shipped via rail from Kansas. The trail would eventually be called the Chisholm Trail.
Detailed explanation-2: -Although its exact route is uncertain, it originated south of San Antonio, Texas, ran north across Oklahoma, and ended at Abilene, Kansas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Herds with as many as ten thousand cattle were driven from Texas over the trail to Kansas. The trail acquired its name from trader Jesse Chisholm, a part-Cherokee, who just before the Civil War had built a trading post in what is now western Oklahoma City.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Great Western Cattle Trail was first traveled by Captain John T. Lytle in 1874 when he was transporting 3, 500 longhorn cattle up from Southern Texas into Nebraska. In five short years, it became one of the most traveled and famous cattle trails in U.S. history.