​Route of the Old
​Tascosa-Dodge City Trail

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Marker No: ​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) 

Marker No: 4373

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 35.860634,-101.762749

Location: ​Located 7.1 miles S of Courthouse (Dumas) on US 87 (W side of road).