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The Jones Plummer Trail, also known as the Jones and Plummer Trail, began in
Dodge City, Kansas Dodge City is the county seat of Ford County, Kansas, United States, named after nearby Fort Dodge. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 27,788. The city is famous in American culture for its history as a wild frontier town ...
and went southwest through the Oklahoma Panhandle into
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. Ed Jones and Joe Plummer originally used the path for bringing buffalo meat and hides to Dodge City. Later, the trail saw more use as a
freight Cargo consists of bulk goods conveyed by water, air, or land. In economics, freight is cargo that is transported at a freight rate for commercial gain. ''Cargo'' was originally a shipload but now covers all types of freight, including tran ...
route. At one point, this trail saw over of freight a week. The trail also created the city of
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, which originated in 1880 when an enterprising man named Jim Lane built a house along the trail on the south side of the Beaver River to serve as a general store, saloon, hotel, and restaurant for travelers. The trail served its purpose for about 20 years through the 1870s and 1880s, but was abandoned with the arrival of the railroads.


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Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Jones and Plummer Trail

Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
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