QUANAH PARKER TRAIL
Plains, Texas
Long before settlers arrived to turn the earth with their plows, Comanches and other people traveled Sulphur Springs Draw and frequented a spring near present-day Plains.
Indians followed trail
through Plains
August 2, 2012
Arrow Installation
© 2012
T. KREIDLER
Charles Smith
Terry Howard
Plains
NEW MEXICO-BOUND RYLEE KEESEE AND HER BROTHER, CUTTER KEESEE,
STOP ON A SUNNY DECEMBER DAY TO SEE THE LAST QUANAH PARKER TRAIL ARROW BEFORE THE BORDER
© 2014
HANABA
Original Location
Standing with the city-county crew that first installed the Plains arrow are Charles Smith, arrow sculptor, and Terry Howard, city administrator. Plains moved the arrow October 3, 2014 to the Courthouse Square.
Denver City
The draw leads in a northwesterly direction to "Oho" springs, a name likely derived from the Spanish term "ojo de aqua." The springs lie just west of Bronco near the New Mexico border. At the site, ten bedrock mortar holes for grinding corn and mesquite beans would have been used by Indians traveling the water trailway through the area, one of three major draws across Yoakum County.
