Looking up a bit on Jessee Chisholm, he had two main stores. One was in present-day Wichita, where the Twin Lakes Shopping Center is now. The other was in Indian Territories, southwest of what is now Oklahoma City.
His main trade was with the U. S. Army and the Indian Nations.
(In the 1870s, the Civilized Tribes administered the best school in the Territories area; later the fledgling Nation was destroyed by incoming white settlers).

Other mis-readings of history in Jack Lee's discussion of his version are the references to Jayhawkers (that hawks back to the Civil War troubles) and to Indians levying tribute. Of course some cattle were lost to prairie wanderers, but never to a worrysome extent.

Seldom mentioned is Joseph G. McCoy, the cattle buyer who caused the extension of the Trail from Wichita to Abilene in 1867, where he built stockyards (pens) into which the cattle were driven. The Kansas University Heritage website says he received 35,000 cattle the first year. Between 1867-1872, three million cattle were driven to Abilene.
Chisholm Trail

McCoy wrote an excellent history of the cattle trade, which can be found on line. Joseph G. McCoy, "Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest," published in Kansas City, 1874. He discusses the entire region from Santa Fe and the Rio Grande area in the west, Colorado-Wyoming, the problems of cattlemen, the cowboys and the dance halls, bad characters, to the raillines in Kansas and the establishment of concerns like Armour. A wonderful book which should be bought. The online text is complete and excellently presented: Cattle Trade