Details for Horse Head Crossing on the Pecos River
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5371002564
Data
| Marker Number | 2564 |
| Atlas Number | 5371002564 |
| Marker Title | Horse Head Crossing on the Pecos River |
| Index Entry | Horse Head Crossing on the Pecos River |
| Address | FM 11 |
| City | Girvin |
| County | Pecos |
| UTM Zone | 13 |
| UTM Easting | 739674 |
| UTM Northing | 3458385 |
| Subject Codes | exploration and expeditions; roads; stagecoach routes, stands, etc.; water topics |
| Marker Year | 1936 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | From Girvin, about 11.5 miles NW on FM 11 to county road, about 2 miles north to marker |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 1936 Texas Centennial - historical marker |
| Marker Text | 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 |