Route of the Old Tascosa-Dodge City Trail

Founded 1877, for travel from Tascosa, on the Canadian (25 mi. SW) to Dodge City, Kansas. Tascosa was supply center for hunters and settlers, Panhandle and South Plains; and for LE, LIT, LS and LX ranches, running large herds of cattle on area's free grass. Tascosa stagecoach, freighters, cattle herds going to market used this road -- also traveled by gamblers, desperadoes, U.S. marshals and noted frontiersmen. Tascosa had post office, 1878; was county seat, Oldham County, 1880. Town and trail declined after Fort Worth & Denver City Railway built into area, 1887. (1966)

Route of the Old Tascosa-Dodge City Trail is a historical marker in Dumas, Moore County, dedicated in 1966. It is one of 10 historical markers documented in Moore County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 17 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 35.7610, -101.9585 near Dumas. The nearest cataloged historic site is Moore County (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Unknown Grave, Site of Historic Drift Fence, and Geological Riches of Moore County.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5341004373. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.