Show iy Famous Front Frontiersmen By ELMO i. i SCOTT W WATSON ATSON Father of the Old Chisholm Trail TUE PUB Old Chisholm Trail l 1 What hat hat a wealth of romance Is contained In those four words I 1 What pictures they bring up op of an era In American history that Is II gone forever the forever the pictures of thousands upon thousands of long long horn horn cattle driven north Dorth from the wide plains of the Lone LODe Star state to the roaring cow towns of Kansas s by as bold as 81 reckless as brave a crew of daredevils as the world has hns ever er known knowD the old time old time cowboys The scene of man many a story In our Wild West magazines Is la laid on or near the Old Chisholm Trail Cowboy Cow Cow- Cowboy boy bor singers on the radio keep Its fame alive alive- But Dut who was the mau anal who gave care It his name name Jesse Chisholm n was the man In his veins flowed the blood of red rell men and white He Ill was born In the old Cherokee Indian country In Hast Fast Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- In 1778 Ills father Ignatius Chisholm the son of John D. D Chisholm the last hereditary chief of the Cherokees Cherokees Cher Cher- was of Scotch descent Some time after Jesse JESE ChIsholm established a trading post not far from rom where the old California Trail crossed the South Canadian rl river In the present present present pres pres- ent state of Oklahoma Later on he had another trading post pot at Council Grove on the North Canadian a few miles west of the present Oklahoma City By this time he be had deserted his own people entirely and was an as adopted adopt ed member of the Wichita tribe with whom he went north Into Kansas at atthe atthe atthe the outbreak of of the Civil war For or more than six years the camped at the mouth of the Little Arkansas Arkansas Ar Ar- kansas where t the e city which bears their name is la now located 1 There they were visited by James It II Mead a trader who In the lip spring ring of 1805 was Invited by Chisholm to join him In a trading expedition to the valley of the In the vicinity of Fort ort Cobb and the former Wichita agency Mead Mend accepted the Invitation So they loaded their wagons and drove e to the crossing of the North Canadian where a a short trip side-trip to Chisholm's trading post at Council Grove Grote was made Later Chisholm made other trips over this route from Kan to the valley of the and to Chisholm's Trail It became fa famous mOils as the Old Chisholm Trail anI and It gave IlIve to Jesse Chisholm long after his death lenth deatha lentha a renown which he little suspected was to be his while he was uns still living I A Hero Hert of ot Fact and Fiction Tim Battle of Monmouth was over fiver and Sir Henry Clinton's British army had retreated toward Sandy Hook and ond cross crossed Id I'd o er to Staten Island Hanging on their flanks were several detachments of Gen Sen Daniel Mor Morgans Morgan's famous American riflemen On the New Jersey shore among the horses hors's and wagons yet to be ferried over stood n II phaeton phaeton perhaps perhaps General Clinton's own thought the buckskin buckskin- clad rifleman scouting toward them He lie noticed ed too that the phaeton was guarded by two sentinels but hut the next moment he was dashing forward shouting for them to surrendEr or die Jle One of them ned lied Immediately but the rifleman disarmed the other and ordered him to hitch two of the best horses to the phaeton Immediate ly Iy As the frightened did this the other sentinel sentinel sentinel- came around the the wagons only nl to receive a a bullet from flom the long rifle rille of the buckskin buckskin buck skin bravo braio The sharp crack of of the the rifle attracted attract attract- cd Id the of British men s time the channel change han el w who 1 ti edi opened fire Put Iut the Morgan Morgan rifleman rode safely away In his cap cap- tur turl d phaeton with his hll prisoner l' l e eI I him and d another r daredevil escapade had hl be been ea to the the career orter carmer of David David In ml EIlerson rs n. n Ellerson was a R Scotchman born on the mi while his family were WE're emi emigrating to Virginia He lIe won on fils diri I as a sharpshooter an and Indian fighter In Lord Dunmore's war In fn 1774 and n II year jear ear later he marched away to Boston l as a member ot of one of those rifle title companies who wb bore the legend Liberty or Death 1 i emblazoned across the breasts breast of ot their buckskin shirts I He lie became one of the picked men who made up Morgan's Morgans alls all's rifle rille corps mind and andos I os as S the boon companion of Timothy Murphy he became an almost leg lpg figure In the annals of border warfare with the Indians Indiana and Tories Tortes on on oo the New r York frontier With the I redoubtable Tim he be strides across many a pa page e In Ho Robert Hort RobertV rt W V Chambers Chambers' historical romances a a hero of fiction os DS well as of fact had ninny many a hairbreadth escape escape es es- cape from death none perhaps closer than that day duy In when he be was a It member of af the scouting party led It'd b by Capt Thomas Boyd Royd near GEneste during dur duro ing lag General Sullivan's Sullivans expedition Eif against the Iroquois Their rash rosh captain ltd led bl till bla m men e at n nest st of Indians and Tories full foot I Davy y a I shouted Tim as y as the rl rUic- rUic u sf the time enemy my began to I Blaze blare arou 1 them and Bud fort foot they Old Id Idt t to to such good purpose se th that t they barel barely escaped the terrible fate fute which befell berell Boyd lIoyd at the torture stake of the Seneca Sene Sen Sen- e eca as s After the Revolution beame became became be be- came ame n a farmer In the Schoharie valley alley of New hew York Yolk He Ue died in 1831 and ond andIs andis ondIs Is burled buried In the I Flat lat Creek cemetery la In GUton Gilboa N N. 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