Quanah Parker & Comanches camped here at Childress Springs when traveling N/S Trail, now U.S. 83 Arrow sculptor: Charles A. Smith — — Map (db m280386) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m47660) HM
The legacy of Quanah Parker and
Charles Goodnight is that former
enemies can become good friends
Arrow Sculptor: Charles A. Smith
— — Map (db m151421) HM
