Name/Title
Chisholm Trail Cook, Pleas Smith & wife, in Elder Years, Photos (2), c. 1890Entry/Object ID
P1991.1H.159Description
Chisholm Trail Cook, Pleas Smith & wife, in Elder Years, Photos (2), c. 1890. b/w. Copy of a portrait photo of an older man, with white hair/beard, standing next to his wife, seated in wicker chair. She may be Native American or Mexican descent. (91.1H.160 & 161are cropped version of #159, showing Pleas only.)
Caption below: "Pleas Smith, born 1835 in Dewitt County, Texas, died 1907, was cook for Thornton Chisholm on the first Chisholm Trail cattle drive from Cardwell Flat to St. Joseph, Mo".
Mrs. Fannie Chisholm Hurst has written a book that gives evidence that her ancestor, Thornton, and not his older brother Jesse, opened the original Chisholm trail when he drove cattle from southern Texas to St. Joseph in 1866.
Original digital scan located on History CD 01.Made/Created
Studio
UnknownDate made
1890Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Chisholm Trail, Cattle Drives, Cattle Drive to St. Joseph, Chisholm FamilyDimensions
Height
8 inWidth
10 inDimension Notes
Also 4" x 5"Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Thornton ChisholmPerson or Organization
Pleas SmithProvenance
Notes
Photo provided by descendant of Chisholm, Mrs. Fannie Chisholm Hurst