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 Dodge City - Tascosa Trail - near Spearman, TX Posted by:  YoSam.
N 36° 12.280 W 101° 18.610
14S E 292312 N 4009123
Buffalo Hunters, military in Indian wars, Civil War military use, and even cattle drives.
Waymark Code: WM9PXB
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/16/2010
Views: 4
Web site listed below gives more detailed information but this historic marker does a good job.
Marker Erected by State Historical Survey Committee, Hansford County Historical Survey Committee, Twentieth Century Club
Date Marker Erected: 1963
Marker Text:
This road was surveyed during the Civil War to haul military supplies to Ft. Bascom, N. Mex. Territory. Then came the buffalo hunters using the Trail going to Dodge City hauling hides and buying supplies. Tascosa became a town in the early 1880's. Os teams and mule teams hauled freight for the cowboy capitol of the Panhandle and ranches that ran into hundreds of dollars annually. Herds from all the Panhandle trailed into Dodge over this route for a number of years. Kit Carson and his N. Mex. Volunteers came down this Trail from Ft. Bascom in November 1865 to fight a losing battle with the Indians at the First Adobe Walls Site. Stage coaches ran weekly carrying mail and passengers over the 242 mile route. Post Offices and stage stands out of Tascosa were Little Blue, Cator's Zulu Stockade, Hardesty Ranch in "No Man's Land", Jim Lanes Beaver Creek, Hines Crossing, Cimarron, Hoodoo Brown, Crooked Creek, on into Dodge. Brick for the courthouse at nearby ghost town of Hansford was hauled from Dodge City. Later freight came over this Trail from Liberal, Kansas. Ranchers continued to use portions of the Old Trail until 1920 when the railroad built across the county and Spearman was built. Thus another old historic trail was fenced and plowed under.
Road of Trail Name: Dodge City - Tascosa Trail
State: Texas
County: Hansford County
Historical Significance:
See text above for details
Years in use: 65
How you discovered it:
Searching for a Texas historical Marker, text provided above.
Book on Wagon Road or Trial:
Trails South: The Wagon-Road Economy in the
Dodge City-Panhandle Region
By C. Robert Haywood
Website Explination:
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/TT/ext4.html
Why?:
Stage road, buffalo hides moved, military (i.e. Kit Carson to fight First Battle of Adobe Walls), etc. Please see text in long description
Directions:
On a main highway in Hansford county.
TX-15/207, roadside turnout, 6 miles west of Spearman
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