Jesse Chisholm

 

One of the more famous names of the Old West is Jesse Chisholm. He is best known for charting the trail that bears his name and made trail drives from Texas to Kansas a whole lot easier.

He hacked out the track for his wagons that carried supplies to his trading posts in Oklahoma and Kansas, where he traded with both the American Indian tribes and the army.

Five million cattle were herded over the Chisholm Trail between 1867-1884.

Besides English, he spoke Spanish and thirteen American tribal languages. For twenty years, he worked for the Republic of Texas and the United States government as an interpreter when both the state and the government were brokering treaties with the Native American tribes.

His mother was Cherokee and his father Scots.

Jesse Chisholm died March 4, 1868 of food poisoning. A great loss to the American West.

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Sandra Cox

 

 

SILVERHILLS.

 

In the 1870s, Brandon Wade is driving a herd of longhorns over the Chisholm Trail when a youth appears out of nowhere riding a magnificent black stallion and packing a deadly-looking six-gun. In need of trail hands, Brandon hires the young man. Not until weeks later, during the middle of a terrible stampeded, does Brandon learn that his young sharpshooter is a beautiful woman. A woman full of fire and passion who he burns to possess. A woman steeped in mystery who refuses to disclose her past. 

Alexandria O'Malley is on the run and must be able to disappear at a moment's notice. When she hires on to the cattle drive, she doesn't expect the powerful attraction between herself and her trail boss or the response of her treacherous body.

 

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