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Goodnight Trail |
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Childress,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
34° 26' 3.46373999988",
-100° 12' 5.2038600012"
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Texas State Historical Marker |
In hostile Indian years of 1866-71, route of great cattle drives from Texas to U.S. forts in Colorado and New Mexico. Col. Charles Goodnight, trailblazer, drove thousands of cattle to water here. Site later (1886) became Childress. Cattle watering hole is now lake in Fair Park. (1964)
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
Goodnight Trail Historical Marker Location Map, Childress, Texas
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