Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1866, from Jesse Chisholm (c.1806-1868), halfbreed Cherokee trader and government agent who first plied it. The surname is from a barony in England, probably from Old English cisel "gravel."
Wikipedia
The Chisholm Trail was a trail used in the post- Civil War era to drive cattle overland, from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads. The portion of the trail marked by Jesse Chisholm went from his southern trading post near the Red River, to his northern trading post near Kansas City, Kansas.
Chisholm Trail was a trail in the post American Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads.
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Usage examples of "chisholm trail".
Apparently, eight o'clock was still too early for the Chisholm Trail Rest Stop Waterbed Motel's Saturday night trade to begin.
The Pan Handle of Texas, the old Chisholm Trail along which were driven the great cattle herds northward, Fort Dodge, where the cowboys conflicted with the card-sharps -- these hard places had left their marks on Carmichael.
Number two, the trail from San Antonio to Abilene was called the Chisholm Trail.
For they were just east of the old Chisholm Trail and hence on what the grass professors called the mid-grass prairies.
It was the first Kansas railroad town to receive Texas longhorns which had been driven up the Chisholm Trail.
It was his brother buried there, alongside the Chisholm Trail, a brother he hadn't seen in ten years because they left home separate.
Rising straight out of the plain, the Wichitas form a granite gateway-- beyond them lay the Chisholm Trail, and Fort Sill.