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''[[United States|United | ''[[United States|United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[United States Migration Internal|Migration]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[US_Migration_Trails_and_Roads]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Jones Plummer Trail]]'' | ||
=== Jones Plummer Trail History === | === Jones Plummer Trail History === | ||
The Jones Plummer Trail began in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_City,_Kansas Dodge City, | The Jones Plummer Trail began in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_City,_Kansas Dodge City, Kansas] and went southwest through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Panhandle Oklahoma Panhandle] into [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas Texas].<ref>Rathjen, Frederick W. (1998). Texas Panhandle Frontier. Texas Tech University Press. pp. p. 132. ISBN 0-89672-399-2.</ref> <ref>Maddux, Vernon R. (2003). In Dull Knife's Wake: The True Story of the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878. Horse Creek Publications. pp. p. 54. ISBN 0-9722217-1-9.</ref> Ed Jones and Joe Plummer originally used the route for bringing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bison buffalo] meat and hides to Dodge City. Later, the trail saw more use as a freight trail. At one point, this trail saw over 150,000 lb (68,000 kg) of freight a week.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_Plummer_Trail</ref> | ||
The Jones and Plummer Trail was established in the fall of 1874, when two former buffalo hunters turned merchants and freighters, Charles Edward (Dirty Face) Jones and Joseph H. Plummer, established a store at the head of Wolf Creek. They had seen the need for a convenient place for buffalo hunters to sell hides and obtain supplies after Quanah Parker's raid had convinced the Dodge City merchants to abandon the Adobe Walls trading post. Jones marked the trail, and the partners' trips to and from Dodge City to deliver hides and buffalo meat and to purchase goods cut ruts into the sod deep enough for others to follow. From Dodge City the trail angled southwest, paralleling Crooked Creek, to cross it and the Cimarron River near the Oklahoma-Kansas line. From there it continued on to Beaver, Oklahoma. At Beaver the Dodge City Trail (see WESTERN TRAIL) branched off to the southwest. The Jones and Plummer Trail continued due south for thirty miles to the site where Booker now stands. Passing Brubaker Lake, it headed southwest toward Gillalow Lake and on to the Jones and Plummer store on Wolf Creek just east of what is now U.S. Highway 83. The route to this point covered about 160 miles. The trail was extended farther south to Mobeetie but kept its original name. Mobeetie grew rapidly, making the trail attractive to additional freighters. Mose Hayes, an early plainsman, described the lower half of the trail thus: "more freighting came down the Jones and Plummer Trail about Clear Creek and turned off to the east before it got to the end of the [original] Jones and Plummer Trail on Wolf and continued south across Wolf Creek...and crossed the Canadian, and then up Red Deer, out on the plains, and on to Mobeetie." Freighters were not the only users of the trail. During the late 1870s Jones and Plummer's store gained a reputation as a safe place for outlaws to hide and replenish their supplies. In the winter of 1878 Bartholomew (Bat) Masterson and a posse from Dodge City pursued a gang of train robbers along the trail, only to lose them at the store. | The Jones and Plummer Trail was established in the fall of 1874, when two former buffalo hunters turned merchants and freighters, Charles Edward (Dirty Face) Jones and Joseph H. Plummer, established a store at the head of Wolf Creek. They had seen the need for a convenient place for buffalo hunters to sell hides and obtain supplies after Quanah Parker's raid had convinced the Dodge City merchants to abandon the Adobe Walls trading post. Jones marked the trail, and the partners' trips to and from Dodge City to deliver hides and buffalo meat and to purchase goods cut ruts into the sod deep enough for others to follow. From Dodge City the trail angled southwest, paralleling Crooked Creek, to cross it and the Cimarron River near the Oklahoma-Kansas line. From there it continued on to Beaver, Oklahoma. At Beaver the Dodge City Trail (see WESTERN TRAIL) branched off to the southwest. The Jones and Plummer Trail continued due south for thirty miles to the site where Booker now stands. Passing Brubaker Lake, it headed southwest toward Gillalow Lake and on to the Jones and Plummer store on Wolf Creek just east of what is now U.S. Highway 83. The route to this point covered about 160 miles. The trail was extended farther south to Mobeetie but kept its original name. Mobeetie grew rapidly, making the trail attractive to additional freighters. Mose Hayes, an early plainsman, described the lower half of the trail thus: "more freighting came down the Jones and Plummer Trail about Clear Creek and turned off to the east before it got to the end of the [original] Jones and Plummer Trail on Wolf and continued south across Wolf Creek...and crossed the Canadian, and then up Red Deer, out on the plains, and on to Mobeetie." Freighters were not the only users of the trail. During the late 1870s Jones and Plummer's store gained a reputation as a safe place for outlaws to hide and replenish their supplies. In the winter of 1878 Bartholomew (Bat) Masterson and a posse from Dodge City pursued a gang of train robbers along the trail, only to lose them at the store. | ||
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=== Internet Links === | === Internet Links === | ||
*[http://www.oldmeadecounty.com/jonesplummer_trail.htm Sharing the History of Meade County, | *[http://www.oldmeadecounty.com/jonesplummer_trail.htm Sharing the History of Meade County, Kansas] | ||
*[http://www.blogoklahoma.us/place.asp?id=804 Exploring Oklahoma | *[http://www.blogoklahoma.us/place.asp?id=804 Exploring Oklahoma History] | ||
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/J/JO017.html Encyclopedia of Oklahoma | *[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/J/JO017.html Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History] | ||
*[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/exj01 Texas State Historical | *[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/exj01 Texas State Historical association] | ||
=== Other Wiki Pages === | === Other Wiki Pages === | ||
*Many of the [[:Category:US Migration Trails and Roads|US Migration Trails and | *Many of the [[:Category:US Migration Trails and Roads|US Migration Trails and Roads]] | ||
=== References === | === References === | ||
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