Trails -- Chisholm Trail.
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Chisholm, Jesse
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Indian trader, guide, and interpreter Jesse Chisholm (1805?-1868) was born in the Hiawassee region of Tennessee. His father, Ignatius Chisholm, was a merchant and slave trader of Scottish ancestry, who married a Cherokee woman with whom he produced three sons, of which Jesse was the eldest. After the couple separated, he married Eliza Edwards, the daughter of a trader in Hughes County, Oklahoma, with whom he had several children, including William E. Chisholm. Chisholm t...
