Jesse Chisholm

Done by Andrew, Kris, Caleb and Angelo.

     Jesse was born in the old Cherokee country,  in east Tennessee , about 1806.  His father was of Scottish extraction and his mother was a Cherokee Indian woman.  He joined the western Cherokees in Arkansas when he was young.  He became noticed in the southwest as a hunter, guide, scout, trader and pathfinder.

     He left the Cherokee and settled in the Creek Nation, near the Little River, in what is now Hughes Country where he made his home.  At that time he had trading post out on the edge of the Great Plains, including one near the site of the Lexington (in what is now Cleveland County ) and one at the Council Grove ( near what is now Oklahoma City ) .  Much of his trading was done by taking wagons and going to the villages of the Comanches and other tribes.

     At this time he rescued captive children from the Comanches and the Kiowas.  Most of them were Mexicans.  He adopted them and kept them with his own family, treating them just like his own children.  He went to Kansas with homeless people, in the later part of 1861, but soon drifted west to the site of what is now Wichita, Kansas, where Wichita, Waco and other refugee tribes from Southwest Oklahoma

 Jesse Chisholm Links:

digital Jesse Chisholm library    

Jesse Chisholm; The peacemaker of the plains 
 If you want to know about the Horses that Jesse Chisholm might have ridden click here                            

  Jesse Chisholm: part of the old west  

Jesse Chisholm: part of Kansas History