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Abilene (/ ˈ æ b ɪ l iː n / AB-i-leen) is a city in Taylor and Jones counties, Texas, United States.Its population was 125,182 at the 2020 census. [9] It is the principal city of the Abilene metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 176,579 as of 2020. [10]
In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1857, Dickinson County was founded and Abilene began as a stage coach stop, established by Timothy Hersey and named Mud Creek.
Kansas; a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. Chicago: Standard Publishing. volume 1 at the Internet Archive volume 2 at the Internet Archive old alphabetical encyclopedia; Cutler, William G. History of the State of Kansas (1883), detailed, reliable older history
1867: Joseph G. McCoy builds stockyards in Abilene, Kansas and helps develop the Chisholm Trail, encouraging Texas cattlemen to undertake cattle drives to his stockyards. 1869: Union Pacific Eastern Division renamed the Kansas Pacific. 1871: Wild Bill Hickok becomes marshal of Abilene, Kansas. 1885: Coronado, Kansas, established.
Abilene, Texas; Abilene Network, the American national academic backbone network; Abilene paradox, a form of dysfunctional group dynamics "Abilene" (song), a 1963 song recorded by George Hamilton IV; Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad, in Abilene, Kansas; Abilene and Southern Railway, taken over by Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1978
The first counties were established while Kansas was a Territory from May 30, 1854, until January 29, 1861, when Kansas became a state. Many of the counties in the eastern part of the state are named after prominent Americans from the late 18th and early-to-mid-19th centuries, while those in the central and western part of the state are named ...
1873 Map of Chisholm Trail with Subsidiary Trails in Texas (from Kansas Historical Society). The Chisholm Trail (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ z əm / CHIZ-əm) was a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in southern Texas, crossed the Red River into Indian Territory, and ended at Kansas rail stops.
The Abilene Trail was a cattle trail leading from Texas to Abilene, Kansas. Its exact route is disputed owing to its many offshoots, but it crossed the Red River just east of Henrietta, Texas, and continued north across the Indian Territory to Caldwell, Kansas and on past Wichita and Newton to Abilene. The first herds were probably driven over ...