Jesse Chisholm - Blaine County, OK - Out of Place Graves on Waymarking.com

Located about five miles northeast of the town of Geary, you travel out into the countryside, concerned all the time that you must have read the coordinates incorrectly. The site of Jesse Chisholm's grave is located off a country road, and down a grassy hillside. It is a simple stone marker, surrounded by a protective pipe railing.

At the roadside is a granite marker giving a history of this amazing man and the influence he had on the early settlements. Born in Tennessee about 1805, he came to Indian Territory in the 1820's. He was a guide, interpreter and peacemaker in the sometimes shaky relationship between the Indians and the white settlers. He was well known and respected by both sides. He set up trading posts in several areas of the Territory, and forged freight trails to bring goods to the new settlements. One of these trails which came to be known as Chisholm's Trail was later the route used by Texas ranchers to brings huge numbers of cattle through Indian Territory to the rail lines in Kansas.

This grave site is located on the original Indian allotment given to Chief Left Hand of the Arapahoes. Chisholm and Left Hand were good friends and it was at his camp site nearby that Jesse Chisholm died on March 4, 1868. It is suspected that he died of poisoning after eating bear meat cooked in a copper pot.

First Name: Jesse Last Name: Chisholm Born: 01/01/1805 Died: 03/04/1868

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