Details for Comanche War Trail
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5135000996
Data
| Marker Number | 996 |
| Atlas Number | 5135000996 |
| Marker Title | Comanche War Trail |
| Index Entry | Comanche War Trail |
| Address | |
| City | Odessa |
| County | Ector |
| UTM Zone | 13 |
| UTM Easting | 755595 |
| UTM Northing | 3530439 |
| Subject Codes | roads; Native Americans |
| Marker Year | 1964 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | (Access. Rd on Bus. IH 20, East of loop 338, near entrance to Sunset Memorial Gardens) Odessa |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| Marker Text | A Barred, Bristling flying wedge--the Comanches--Rode into 18th century Texas, driving the Wichitas and Caddoes East, the Apaches West, becoming lords of the south plains. Harassed the Spanish and Anglo-Americans along frontier from Corpus Christi on the Gulf up to the Red River. Wrote their name in blood clear down to Zacatecas, Mexico. Captured women, children and horses along their road of blood, tears and agony. Many roads converged into the great Comanche war trail, which passed about 20 miles southeast of this marker. |