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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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Fajitas *YUM!!*
NOT a Mexican food, because fajitas are not found on the interior of
Mexico. Fajitas are truly a Tex-Mex creation combining Texas' beloved
beef & BBQ style cooking with flour tortillas, onion, bell pepper,
pico de gallo, and guacamole. The invention of the fajita is lost in
the mists of time. Skirt steak is usually the cut of meat used for
fajitas because in the Rio Grande Valley in the 30's and 40's folks
couldn't afford more expensive cuts. The strip steak was considered a
table trimming and not a good cut of meat. It was usually ground up
by butchers into hamburger meat before the creation of the fajita.
Oftentimes, it was just thrown away. Fajitas are ALWAYS made with
skirt steak, and BBQ'ed. Some places have chicken fajitas.. but
according to my Godfather in San Antonio, "Chickens don't have
fajitas!!!" And he would get so mad about the very idea of chicken
fajitas! Fajitas are ALWAYS served with flour tortillas NOT corn.
Many Texans think that the word "fajita" means "little skirt," but
actually the Spanish word faja means band or strap. This refers to
the shape of the elongated cut of meat before it's grilled and sliced
into strips. The Spanish for skirt is falda.
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