Chisholm
Historic cattle route
Chisholm is a Scottish surname, originally from a clan in the Highlands.
In American contexts, it most often refers to Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the U.S.
Congress, or to the Chisholm Trail, a cattle-driving route from Texas to Kansas railroad towns in the 1860s–1880s.
Female given name
- JesseHebrew-origin masculine name
- CarolineTraditional feminine name
- activistVigorous cause champion
- politicianElected government official
trailblazer · pioneer · congresswoman · suffragist · reformer · abolitionist · feminist · unbought
Shirley
Female given name
politician · trailblazer · pioneer · congresswoman · suffragist · reformer · abolitionist · feminist · unbought · unbossed
Scottish
Of that northern kingdom
family · heritage · lineage · patronymic · descendants · pedigree · tartan · Highland · crest · motto
cattle
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
- TexasSecond-largest American state
- KansasCentral American plains state
- droversLivestock transporters on foot
cowboys · longhorns · Abilene · drive · frontier · westward · stampede · prairie · railroad · stockyards
Chisholmrailroad
Permanent track for trains
transcontinental railroad · Union Pacific · iron horse · interstate highway · railway
ChisholmGeorge Wallace
Alabama segregationist politician
segregationist · Richard Nixon · old boys' network · status quo · old boys' club
- Chisholm TrailPost-Civil War cattle route