Horse Head Crossing on the Pecos River
FM 11, Girvin, TX, USA
Texas, USA
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1850
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Horse Head Crossing on the Pecos River.
The Texas Historical Commission Atlas records this marker as in situ at the listed location. It remains part of the state marker inventory; the placement description and coordinates in this row follow the current official Atlas record and should be field-verified before publication.
About Horse Head Crossing on the Pecos River
Horse Head Crossing on the Pecos River carried the Comanche Trail linking the Llano Estacado to Mexico, named for horse skulls surveyor John R. Bartlett found marking the ford in 1850. The Butterfield Overland Mail route used the crossing from 1858 to 1861. From 1866 the Goodnight-Loving Trail drove tens of thousands of longhorns across it.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Horse Head Crossing on the Pecos River
Here crossed the undated Comanche Trail from Llano Estacado to Mexico. In 1850 John R. Bartlett while surveying the Mexican boundary found the crossing marked by skulls of horses; hence the name "Horse Head". The Southern Overland Mail (Butterfield) route, St. Louis to San Francisco, 1858-1861, and the road west from Fort Concho crossed here. The Goodnight-Loving trail, established in 1866 and trod by tens of thousands of Texas longhorns, came here and turned up the east bank of the Pecos for Fort Summer and into Colorado Erected by the State of Texas 1936 Source: https://atlas.thc.texas.gov/Details/5371002564
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