Jones Plummer Trail Explained

The Jones Plummer Trail, also known as the Jones and Plummer Trail,^[1] began in Dodge City, Kansas and went southwest through the Oklahoma Panhandle into Texas.^{[2] [3]} Ed Jones and Joe Plummer originally used the path for bringing buffalo meat and hides to Dodge City. Later, the trail saw more use as a freight route. At one point, this trail saw over 150000lb of freight a week. The trail also created the city of Beaver, Oklahoma, which originated in 1880 when an enterprising man named Jim Lane built a house along the trail on the south side of the Beaver River to serve as a general store, saloon, hotel, and restaurant for travelers.^[4]

The trail served its purpose for about 20 years through the 1870s and 1880s, but was abandoned with the arrival of the railroads.^[1]

External links

• Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Jones and Plummer Trail
• Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jones and Plummer Trail. C. Robert Haywood, Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. October 21, 2020.
2. Book: Rathjen, Frederick W. . Texas Panhandle Frontier . 1998 . Texas Tech University Press . 0-89672-399-2 . 132 .
3. Book: Maddux, Vernon R. . In Dull Knife's Wake: The True Story of the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878 . 2003 . Horse Creek Publications . 0-9722217-1-9 . 54 .
4. Web site: Beaver. V. Pauline Hodges, Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. October 21, 2020.