| Show fifty famous frontiersmen by ELMO SCOTT WATSON father of the old chisholm trail stir HE old chisholm traill trail I 1 what a wealth of romance Is contained in those four words what pictures they bring up of an era in american history that Is gone forever the pictures of thousands upon thousands of ieng horn cattle driven north from the wide plains of the lone star state to the roaring cow towns of kansas by as bold us as reckless as brave a crew of daredevils dare devils as the world has ever known the old time cowboys the scene of many a story in our wild west magazines Is laid on or near the old chisholm trail cowboy singers on the radio keep its famo fame alive but who was the man who gave it his name jesse jcsse chisholm was the man in his veins flowed the blood of red men and white lie ile was wag born in the old cherokee Cherok ce indian country in east tennessee in 1778 nis his father igantius Ignat lug chisholm the son of john D chisholm the last hereditary chief of the cherokees was of scotch descent some time after 1850 jesse chisholm established a trading post not far from where the old california trail crossed the south canadian river in the present state of oklahoma later on he had another trading post at council grove on the north canadian a few miles west of the present oklahoma city by this time he had deserted his own people entirely and was an a adopted member of the wichita tribe with whom he went north into kansas at the outbreak of the civil war for more than six years the WI chItas camped at the mouth of the little arkansas where the city which bears their name la Is now located there they were visited by james IL mead a i trader who in the spring of ISM was invited by chisholm to join him in a trading expedition to the valley of the washita in the vicinity of fort cobb and the former wichita agency mead accepted the invitation so th they ey loaded their wagons and droe to the crossing of the north canadian where a short side trip to chisholme Chis holms trading post at council grove was made later chisholm made other trips over this route front from wichita kan to the valley of the washita and to Chis chisholme holms trail it became famous as the old chisholm trail and it gave to jesse chisholm long after his death a renown renon which lie little suspected was to be his while he be was still living A hero of fact a ct and fiction THE tand HE battle of monmouth was over and sir henry cliftons Clin tons british army had retreated toward sandy hook and crossed over to staten island hanging on their hanks flanks were several detachments of gen daniel morgans famous american riflemen on the new jersey shore among the horses and wagons yet to be ferried over stood a phaeton perhaps general cliftons Clin tons own thought the buckskin clad rifleman scouting toward them ile he noticed too that the phaeton was guarded by two sentinels but the next nest moment he was dashan dashing forward shouting 7 for them 0 o surrender or die one of them fled immediately but the rifleman disarmed the other and ordered him to hitch two of the best horses to the phaeton immediately As the frightened briton did this the other sentinel came running around the wagons only to receive a bullet from the long rifle of the buckskin bravo the charp crack of the rifle attracted the attention of british artillery men across the channel who immediately opened fire but the morgan rifleman rode safely away in his bis captured phaeton with his prisoner beside him and another daredevil escapade had been added to the career of david Kllc ellerson Eller soo was a scotchman born on the high seas while his family were emigrating to virginia me he won distinction is as a sharpshooter and indian righter fighter in lord Dun mores war in 1771 and a year later he be marched away to boston as a member of one of those rifle companies who ulio bore the legend liberty or death I 1 em blazoned across the breasts of their buckskin shirts ile he became one of the picked men who made up morgans rifle corps and as the boon comp companion anlon of timothy ly murphy he became an almost legendary figure in the annals of border warfare with the indians and torlea tories on the new york frontier with the redoubtable tim he strides across many a page in robert W chambers historical romances a hero of fiction as a well as or of fact ellerson lorson El had many a hairbreadth escape from death none perhaps closer than that day in 1779 1770 when lie he was a member of the scouting party led by capt thomas boyd near genesee dur ing general sullivans expedition against the iroquois their rash young captain led tola his men into a nest of indians and tories rull pull foot davy daryl shouted tim murphy a as the I 1 rifles or of the enemy began to blaze around them and pull foot they did to such good purpose that they barely escaped the terrible fate which befell boyd at the torture stake of the sen acas after the revolution ellerson became a farmer in the schoharie Scho harle arle valley of new york lie ile died in 1831 tind Is burled buried in the flat creek cemetery if lo 10 bilboa gilboa N Y ok nal western newspaper union |
