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chisholm

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Population (2000): 4960 Housing Units (2000): 2375 Land area (2000): 4.394795 sq. miles (11.382466 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.342017 sq. miles (0.885819 sq. km) Total area (2000): 4.736812 sq. miles (12.268285 sq. km) FIPS code: 11386 Located within: ...

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Usage examples of chisholm.

By the time I got to the office, I had a good idea of why the Chisholm Trail Rest Stop Waterbed Motel was well off the main road.

Yes, officer, I fled to Oklahoma, but after the Chisholm Trail Rest Stop Waterbed Motel, I was only following orders.

Flood and Priest had passed Abilene, Texas, in safety, but no word had reached our employer since, and it was believed that they had turned eastward and would come up the Chisholm Trail.

George McGovern is so close to a first-ballot nomination in Miami that everybody except Hubert Humphrey, Gene McCarthy, Shirley Chisholm, and Ed Muskie seems ready to accept it as a foregone conclusion.

Once across Red River, you will have the Chisholm Trail, running through civilized tribes, and free from all annoyance of blanket Indians.

His herd had just come in over the Chisholm Trail, crossing to the western somewhere above.

The Chisholm Cattle Trail, which ran from Red River to the Kansas line, had almost fallen into disuse, owing to encroachments of settlements south of the former and westward on the latter.

The latter was an Indian trading-post, located on the mail route to Fort Reno, and only a few miles north of the Chisholm Crossing.

As the Dodge cut-off left the Chisholm Trail some ten miles above the Indian trading-post, the next morning we waved good-bye to the old cattle trace and turned on a northwest angle.

But within an hour we crossed a country trail over which herds had passed on their way northwest, having left the Chisholm after crossing the North Fork.

This was the only habitation in sight--the last home of the Englishman, Jack Chisholm, whose story has yet to be told.

The three men were driven to Chisholm Prison, where the warden was awaiting them, having been informed of the matter by telephone.

II Chisholm Prison was a great, spreading structure of granite, four stories in all, which stood in the centre of acres of open space.

Fielding would be at Chisholm Prison on the following evening, Thursday, and in the event Professor Van Dusen had not yet escapedand they presumed he had not because they had not heard from himthey would meet him there.

Plucky little Chisholm, Colonel of the Imperials, had fallen with two mortal wounds as he dashed forward waving a coloured sash in the air.