Editing Chisholm Trail (section)

==Route==
[[File:Chisholmtrailduncan.JPG|thumb|right|Chisholm Trail crossing through modern-day [[Duncan, Oklahoma]]]]
[[File:Chisholm Trail Historical Marker Kingfisher.jpg|thumb|right|Chisholm Trail historical marker in [[Kingfisher, Oklahoma]]]]
In Texas, hundreds of feeder trails headed north and joined the main cattle trails. In the early 1840s, most cattle were driven up the [[Texas Road|Shawnee Trail]]. The Chisholm Trail was previously used by [[Native Americans in the United States|Indian]] hunting and raiding parties; the trail crossed into [[Indian Territory]] (present-day west-central [[Oklahoma]]) near Red River Station and entered Kansas near [[Caldwell, Kansas|Caldwell]]. Through Oklahoma, the route of [[U.S. Route 81|U.S. Highway 81]] follows the Chisholm Trail through present-day towns of [[El Reno, Oklahoma|El Reno]], [[Duncan, Oklahoma|Duncan]], Chickasha, and [[Enid, Oklahoma|Enid]].<ref>[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v014/images/v014p108map.jpg Oklahoma Map of Chisholm Trail] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060516030053/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v014/images/v014p108map.jpg |date=2006-05-16 }} Oklahoma State University Digital Library Collections</ref>

Historians generally consider the starting point of the Chisholm Trail to be either [[Donna, Texas|Donna]] or San Antonio. From 1867 to 1871, the trail ended in Abilene, Kansas, but as railroads were incrementally built southward, the end of the trail moved to other cities. The end of the trail moved to [[Newton, Kansas|Newton]] and soon afterward to [[Wichita, Kansas|Wichita]]. From 1883 to 1887, the end of the trail was at [[Caldwell, Kansas|Caldwell]].