The Great Western Trail - Vernon, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 34° 09.180 W 099° 17.054
14S E 473798 N 3779157
34.153001, -99.284238 The Rotary International placed a concrete post on the SW corner of the Walbarger Courthouse Square.
Waymark Code: WM155YE
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/22/2021
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The Rotary International placed this concrete marker for The Great Western Trail.
Legends of America
"The Great Western Cattle Trail, also known as the Western Trail, Fort Griffin Trail, Dodge City Trail, Northern Trail, and Texas Trail, wasn’t as well known as some of the other cattle trails, but it was longer in length and carried cattle for two years longer than did the Chisholm Trail.
In 1874 John T. Lytle, who was transporting 3,500 longhorn cattle from the grazing ranges of Texas to Fort Robinson, Nebraska, blazed the trail. The road began in the hill country of near present Kerrville, Texas and ran west of and roughly parallel to the Chisholm Trail into Kansas.
n 1875, when the U.S. Army successfully concluded the Red River War, which drove the Comanche and Kiowa onto reservations, Lytle’s trail became the most popular path to the railheads in Kansas and Nebraska. By 1879, it would become one of the most traveled and famous cattle trails in U.S. history."