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Goodnight Trail

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Childress, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 34° 26' 3.46373999988", -100° 12' 5.2038600012"
 
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    In hostile Indian years of 1866-71, route of great cattle drives from Texas to U.S. forts in Colorado and New Mexico. Col. Charles Goodnight, trailblazer, drove thousands of cattle to water here. Site later (1886) became Childress. Cattle watering hole is now lake in Fair Park. (1964)

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Goodnight Trail Historical Marker Location Map, Childress, Texas