MacKenzie Trail Monument. (original) (raw)

The MacKenzie Trail Monument
Photo Courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2009

"Over a million buffalo hides hauled East, route settlers West"

"Just to the north (1874-1900 ran
The Mackenzie Trail"

"Tonkawa Indians guided Mackenzie to defeat Comanches in Tule Canyon, end Indian power in Texas"

"Trail died from R.R. 1900.
Along the trail began Longhorn Ranches."

Printed in the blocks at the base of the marker from left to right, beginning with the top row:

"J. C. Bryant / Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Scott / Captain W. E. Rayner / J. E. Murfee, Sr. / SMS Ranches / City of Haskell/County of Haskell / R. V. and Tennie B. Colbert / Dr. L. W. Hollis / Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Tandy / F W & D Ry Company / Erected by Mack-Trail Memorial Association, Bernard Buie"

Bottom Row:
"W. L. Harrison / S. Burk Burnett / Thomas Lloyd Burnett / Clifford B. Jones / Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Humphrey / R. L. Penick / County of Jones / M. S. Pierson / Sculptor W. M. Chase, 1959"

Marker year: 1959