Jesse Chisholm
Date: Between 1850s and 1900s
Unmounted tintype portrait of Jesse Chisholm.

Trails correspondence
Date: 1905-2003
Letters, accounts, correspondence, and reminiscences of trails. Some trails covered are the Chisholm, California, Palo Duro, Jones and Plummer, Oregon, and the Butterfield Overland.

Jesse Chisholm
Date: Between 1865 and 1868
A photograph of Jesse Chisholm, an Indian trader, guide and interpreter. He is best known for being the namesake to the Chisholm Trail, which Texas ranchers used to drive their cattle into Kansas and then ship by rail to eastern markets.

Kansas: early routes, old trails, historic sites, landmarks, etc.
Creator: Root, George A. (George Allen), 1867-1949
Date: December 1939
This map, created by George Allen Root and later reproduced by the Kansas Turnpike Authority, depicts trails, landmarks, and historic sites in the state of Kansas. The original map was compiled by George Allen Root and delineated by W. M. Hutchinson from information obtained from the Kansas State Historical Society.

Map of a portion of Oklahoma showing the location of the Chisholm Trail
Creator: Oklahoma State Highway Commission
Date: Between 1936 and 1938
This map of Chisholm Trail shows that portion through Oklahoma with Kansas and Texas borders.

Old Chisholm cattle trails
Creator: Ziegelasch, A
Date: 1873
This map illustrates the Chisholm cattle trail from Kansas and Colorado to the Texas and Indian Territory with subsidiary trails in Texas.

Route of the Chisholm cattle trail in Kansas
Creator: Kansas State Historical Society
Date: Between 1960 and 1969
This map illustrates the Chisholm cattle trail and its route from Abilene, Kansas to Caldwell, Kansas.

Chisholm Trail
Creator: Kansas Dept. of Transporation
Date: June 07, 1970
An aerial view of the Chisholm Trail south of Caldwell, Kansas in Sumner County.

Main street, Caldwell, Kansas
Date: 1900
This black and white photograph looking north on main street in Caldwell, Kansas. The town located on the Chisholm Trail in Summer, County, Kansas, was known as the "Border Queen City" during the cow town period because of its location to the Oklahoma border. In 1893 Caldwell, also, became a starting point for the Cherokee Strip Land Run which opened up the Oklahoma Territory for settlement.

Six gun to 61
Creator: Kansas. Centennial Commission
Date: 1960
This film by the Kansas Centennial Commission commemorates 100 years of Kansas statehood with an overview of Kansas history. The twenty-five minute film begins with the Louisiana Purchase and ends with President Eisenhower's speech in Abilene, Kansas, in 1959. The film was produced by the University of Kansas Television-Film Center with assistance from the Kansas Historical Society, and it was written and directed by Robert D. Brooks and J. William Walker.