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Abilene Chronicles
From Historic Cowtown To River Brethren Settlement In Dickinson County
Kenneth David Musser(0)
About
The book centers around the town, which at one time was known as a place of "nowhere." Abilene, Kansas, got its name from Mrs. Timothy Hersey, the wife of Abilene founder Timothy Hersey, who took her bible outdoors, letting the pages flutter in the wind. The bible page stopped at Luke 3:1, and standing out was the word Abilene "glowing" in the wind. Abilene, translated in Greek, means "City of the Planes." The name Abilene was meant to be as there's 783,000 words in the King James Bible and "Abilene" occurs only once.
In 1867, an amazing entrepreneur, Joseph G. McCoy, arrived in Abilene from Illinois. The genius McCoy saw that after the Civil War, huge herds of longhorn cattle in Texas needed a shipping point for the thousands of longhorns to be railed to Kansas City. The Chisholm Trail becomes the first part of our historical book, with the trail opened up by a Cherokee Scottish fur trader, Jesse Chisholm. The trail ran for 1,000 miles starting in South Texas to Abilene, Kansas, where at Abilene, the terminal of the Chisholm Trail, the Texas longhorn would be railroaded to Kansas City.
In 1867, an amazing entrepreneur, Joseph G. McCoy, arrived in Abilene from Illinois. The genius McCoy saw that after the Civil War, huge herds of longhorn cattle in Texas needed a shipping point for the thousands of longhorns to be railed to Kansas City. The Chisholm Trail becomes the first part of our historical book, with the trail opened up by a Cherokee Scottish fur trader, Jesse Chisholm. The trail ran for 1,000 miles starting in South Texas to Abilene, Kansas, where at Abilene, the terminal of the Chisholm Trail, the Texas longhorn would be railroaded to Kansas City.