USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first shipments of iron ore took place in 1898 on the Great Northern Railroad between Chisholm and Duluth. The city of Chisholm was named after a man named Archie Chisholm, who had been working in Ely around 1888. He migrated to Hibbing in 1894. Later he discovered the Chisholm mine around 1900.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Chisholm Trail was the major route out of Texas for livestock. Although it was used only from 1867 to 1884, the longhorn cattle driven north along it provided a steady source of income that helped the impoverished state recover from the Civil War.

Detailed explanation-4: -JESSE CHISHOLM-The trail’s namesake, he was an Indian trader who blazed a route from Wichita, Kansas, across the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) to the Red River. Later, cattlemen used the route to transport their cattle to profitable northern markets.