In 1874 John T. Lytle drove a herd of 3500 longhorn cattle from south Texas to Fort Robinson, Nebraska, mapping the route later known as the Great Western Cattle Trail, the greatest of all the cattle trails. Longer than the others, stretching from Mexico to Canada, it carried 6 to 8 million cattle and remained in use from 1874 to 1893; it was also known as the Texas Trail, Dodge City Trail, and later the Lonesome Dove Trail. Corwin F. Doan called Capt. Lytle a well prepared drover and a great man. Jonathan Doan established a trading post later known as Doan's Store in April 1878, and his nephew Corwin Doan arrived in October 1878 and took over the business. In 1879 the U.S. Postal Department designated a post office at the store, with Corwin Doan as postmaster. The store supplied trail drivers, American Indians, and settlers in old Greer County, and Quanah Parker was a frequent visitor during the trail driving era. Doan's Store did as much as 1200 dollars in business per day, with bacon and flour sometimes sold in carload lots, and major cattle deals were often made there when cattlemen from Montana and Wyoming came to buy entire herds. As the focal point of the Great Western Trail, trail drivers nicknamed it the Jumping Off Place.