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Texas Facts of the Day
Bluebonnet Margarine
Bluebonnet margarine was created in Texas and named for the state
flower *well duh!* This lasted until the company began selling their
product nationwide. Fearing a regional name would would prevent
consumers from buying the product, the company changed to a woman's
bonnet for their artwork.
Chisholm Trail
The most famous trail in the Old West known even to Easterners, but
the man for who it was named after NEVER drove a single cow up it.
Jesse Chisholm was an Indian trader who, by 1865 had traveled so
frequently through Indian territory (what is now Wichita, KS, South
through Oklahoma to the red river) that his well-worn wagon tracks
were followed North by cattleman. Eventually it became so popular
with cattleman that it grew to travel through Texas to the Rio Grande.
Some residents of Paris, TX have disputed that the spelling should be
"Chisum" after John Chisum or (Jinglebob John after his ranch and
brand) a pioneering cowman. John Chisum was one of the first Texans
to drive cattle. He sent his first herd with an equally well-known
cowman, Charles Goodnight in 1866; a year after Jesse Chisholm.
However, Chisum's cattle went Texas to New Mexico, NOT Kansas, and was
knows as the Goodnight-Loving trail.
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