Doan's Crossing
It was at this location, where the Texas Cattle Trail crossed the Red River, that C.F. Doan maintained an extensive mercantile operation. Though the store was on the Texas side of the river, the crossing became known as Doan's Crossing. It was last used in 1895, but during its existence over 19,000,000 head of cattle crossed here on their way to markets in Kansas.
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Great Western Trail
In 1874, the cattle ranchers of the San Antonio, Texas area began blazing a trail with their large herds of longhorn cattle through western Indian Territory to the railhead at Dodge City, Kansas and to markets beyond into Canada and the northwest territories of America. It's estimated that over 11,000,000 head of longhorns passed over this trail on which you now stand, the trail's wake is marked only by a long sequence of depressions worn into the land by the millions of hooves that traveled it, and instance of one of these depressions ...
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Great Western Trail
"Western Cattle Trail" More than 6 million cattle went up this trail from Texas to Kansas between 1874 and 1888. The trail crossed this area approximately 10 miles east of this location.
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