On the northeast corner of Chisholm and Avenue A stood the Red Light Saloon, which helped give Caldwell a reputation as the most lawless cowtown. In April 1880, George and Mag Wood disassembled their Wichita saloon and brought it to Caldwell, where it became a notably murderous establishment. Those killed there included marshals, cowboys, bystanders, and even the owner, who died trying to protect the honor of one of his girls, who both lived and worked upstairs. Although liquor was illegal in Kansas under state law and illegal in the Indian Territory to the south under federal law, Caldwell somehow maintained a good supply for dusty cowboys, who also sought out the Red Light and other saloons for their ladies of the night, known in Caldwell as the Border Queens. Between 1865 and 1885, this area saw the forced passing of Native American Indians south into the Territory, hundreds of thousands of Texas longhorn cattle moving north to market, and westbound supply wagons carrying foodstuffs to America's far-flung military camps and outposts. Jesse Chisholm blazed his trail between San Antonio and Abilene, though only about 150 miles of it between Dover, Oklahoma and Wichita was used for cattle. The trail, about 200 to 400 yards wide here, passed toward the northeast and was closed north of Caldwell in 1880 with the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad. Chisholm, who was part Cherokee, was a scout, trader, and explorer who died in 1868 before his trail reached its greatest use in the cattle trade.