Named for its traffic in buffalo hides and bones, this North Texas road gave subsistence to pioneers while aiding the mass harvest of the American bison. As long as buffalo survived, providing food, shelter, and clothing, the Indians were lords of the Plains, and authorities encouraged hunting. Harvested hides went to market over this road. After the buffalo and Indians were gone, permanent settlers arrived. In adverse years, while a man tried to get a start at farming, ranching, or storekeeping, bones were salvaged and sold for grocery or seed money. Before 1878, hundreds of wagons used this route to take buffalo hides to market, and before 1890, hundreds of wagons carried bones to Wichita Falls and Henrietta. The road came east from the Plains near the south line of Foard and Wilbarger counties to Guide Mound, then three miles east and south to the Wichita River bridge; then to the county line three miles west of Holliday, and south of Lake Wichita, then crossed at the old Van Dorn Crossing five miles south of Jolly. Pioneers also called it Great North Road or Good Creek Road, and it proved invaluable to the economy and mapping of the area.