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Map showing the Southwest Trail or Military Road as it was in the mid-1800s (in red) and the Natchitoches Trace that it replaced (in brown). The Southwest Trail was a 19th-century pioneer route that was the primary passageway for American settlers bound for Texas.
Much of the prehistoric path was adopted by the Southwest Trail when American pioneers later traveled to Arkansas and Texas. The paths varied the most south of the Arkansas River. The American Indian path traveled to Hot Springs, then followed the Ouachita River southward to Louisiana, while Southwest Trail users generally were headed to Texas.
Branching off from that route, some pioneers traveled southwestward on the California Trail from Fort Hall, Oregon Territory to Sutters Fort, in Mexican Alta California. Also branching off to the south was the Mormon Trail from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. During the twenty-five years 1841–1866, 250,000 to 650,000 ...
Washington served as a major trading point along the Southwest Trail, evolving into the Hempstead county seat and later the capital of Arkansas from 1863 to 1865 when Little Rock was threatened during the Civil War. [1] The original plat of Washington was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 as the Washington Historic ...
Santa Fe Trail; Siskiyou Trail; Southern Emigrant Trail; Southwest Trail, from St. Louis, Missouri, to Texarkana, Texas; Stockton - Los Angeles Road; Territorial Road of Michigan, from Detroit west to St. Joseph and Lake Michigan; Wilderness Road (Wilderness Trail) scouted by Daniel Boone from the Shenandoah Valley through the Cumberland Gap to ...
Within a few decades, and with the help of a vast network of trade routes, peaches made their way across the continent, as far as the Southwest, where tribes like the Navajo sun-dried and stewed them.
Santa Fe Trail; Santa Susana Pass; Sidney-Black Hills Trail; Siskiyou Trail; South Platte Trail; Southern Emigrant Trail; Southwest Trail; Stockton–Los Angeles Road; Stone Bridge and the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road; Sutherland Trail
The records filed with the city are for a drainage study on 34 acres on the northwest corner of Chisholm Trail and McPherson, currently an empty tract. Such studies are the very preliminary first ...