Cherokee Trace

Cherokees laid out an Indian trading route to Arkansas and Oklahoma by sending a tribesman with a keen sense of direction to pull buffalo hides behind his horse and press down the tall grass, while groups of Indians followed blazing the trail, removing logs and underbrush, marking fords, and locating springs and good camping places. After the road was established, the Cherokees planted roses and honeysuckle that still mark the old trace. After the Indians were driven out, settlers came into Texas by this route, and the first residents in Camp County lived on the trail.

Texas · United States