OKLAHOMA
Stratford,Texas
Stratford
Indians followed
Coldwater Creek
Before wagon roads, railroads and highways, travelers followed waterways like Coldwater Creek across the Llano Estacado.
Even in the post-reservation era, observers reported seeing Indians crossing east-west -- first to the west on poor horses with sorry tack and then back to the east with better horses and nicer saddles. No doubt, the Comanche were among these tribes who traveled across present-day Sherman County, certainly long before it was a county and also after Anglo-European settlers moved into the area. For the Comanche, horses -- brought to North America by the Spaniards -- were their stock in trade. Comanche trade routes extended across present-day Texas and Oklahoma north and west into Colorado and New Mexico and south to Mexico.
TRAIL ARROW
INSTALLATION AT DEPOT MUSEUM IN STRATFORD
JULY 26, 2013
MADE THE COVER OF
TRAVELHOST MAGAZINE
© 2013
H. HUMPHRIES
