Who owns the chisum ranch today
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A Story for the Movies
When I was a kid, we would all do our chores, and do extra to save enough money for a Saturday matinee at the Luez Theater in Bolivar. This was a place were all the guys hung out and watched cowboy movies, eat popcorn and tried to hold hands with some girls if we were lucky. (You had to watch out for Miss Luez, she didn’t allow that kind of stuff.) But the “Big Screen” cowboys were what we like that most. John Wayne was always one of my favorites. You can ask my wife today… rarely one of his movies is on TV that I don’t watch it. My story today is not about John Wayne or a movie. It is about the real life of one Wayne’s best movie characters.
John Simpson Chisum (August 15, 1824 ~ December 23, 1884) was born on his grandfather's plantation near Cloverport in western Tennessee. When he was 13, his parents settled in the growing community of Paris, Texas. Apparently he had no formal education but worked at odd jobs. At 28 he became county clerk and began speculating in real estate in the surrounding counties. For reasons of health he wanted work o
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John Chisum
John Simpson Chisum (Contea di Hardeman, 15 agosto1824 – Eureka Springs, 23 dicembre1884) è stato un ricco allevatore del vecchio West nella seconda metà del XIX secolo.
Biografia
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]Nacque nella contea di Hardeman (Tennessee) e si trasferì con la famiglia in Texas nel 1837, dove trovò lavoro come imprenditore edile. Fu anche impiegato della contea di Lamar (Texas). Era di origine scozzese, inglese e gallese.[2]
Chisum venne coinvolto nel business del bestiame nel 1854, e divenne uno dei primi a mandare il proprio bestiame in Nuovo Messico. Ottenne della terra lungo il fiume Pecos per diritto di occupazione, e divenne poi il proprietario di un grande ranch a Bosque Grande, circa 60 km a sud di Fort Sumner, con oltre 100 000 capi di bestiame. Nel 1866-1867 Chisum strinse un accordo con gli allevatori Charles Goodnight e Oliver Loving in modo da portare i capi da vendere all'esercito presso Fort Sumner e Santa Fe, in modo da fornire bestiame ai minatori del Colorado ed a Bell Ranch.
Chisum morì ad Eureka Spri
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John Chisum
American businessman, rancher (1824–1884)
For the baseball player, see John Chisum (baseball).
John Simpson Chisum (August 15, 1824 – December 22, 1884) was a wealthy cattle baron on the frontier in the American West in the mid-to-late 19th century. He was born in Hardeman County, Tennessee, and moved with his family southwest across the Mississippi River to the newly independent Republic of Texas the year after the Texas Revolution (and brief war for independence from Mexico) in 1837, later finding work as a building contractor. He also served as a county clerk in Lamar County, Texas. He was of Scottish, English, and Welsh descent.[2]
Seventeen years later in 1854, Chisum became engaged in the cattle and ranching business and became one of the first to send his herds further west from Texas to the newly established New Mexico Territory which occurred in 1850, two years after the Mexican War's end (acquired along with future state of California, and adjacent territories, then states of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona after the Mexican-American War of 1846
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