| Marker Number |
1472 |
| Atlas Number |
5135001472 |
| Marker Title |
Emigrant Trail |
| Index Entry |
Emigrant Trail Gateway to The West |
| Address |
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| City |
Odessa |
| County |
Ector |
| UTM Zone |
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| UTM Easting |
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| UTM Northing |
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| Subject Codes |
roads; cattle, cattle industry topics |
| Marker Year |
1964 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
From Hwy 80 in Odessa, take US 385 North about 4.6 miles. |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
18" x 28" |
| Marker Text |
Road of stubborn seekers of 1849 California gold fields and better life. Bringing the old, infant, the yet unborn and all worldly goods, family wagons entered Texas at Preston, on Red River, to go southwest via springs (including some now in Monahans Sandhills Park) to Emigrants' Crossing on the Pecos, then upriver and west through Guadalupe Pass to El Paso. Old wagon parts by the trail tell of some disasters. Capt. R. B. Marcy in 1849 and Capt. John Pope in 1854 made Army surveys of the trail. It passed near this spot. |
