Chisholm Trail And Wheat Country in Kansas

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	Chisholm Trail And Wheat Country
Kansas State Historical Marker
Sumner County
	KS, USA

	This portion of the Plains - Indian country until about 1870 - is a center of Kanss agriculture and industry. Over the Chisholm Trail, which ran a few miles west and roughly parallel to this turnpike from the Oklahoma line to Wichita, a milion head of Texas cattle were herded to Kansas railheads from 1867 to 1876. I-35 (Kansas Turnpike), Sumner County Milepost 26, Belle Plaine service area