Bull Foot Station

The drives that watered here were fading well before the run the stone ends on. The Chisholm Trail's biggest years were 1871 and 1873, and after 1881 the drives fell off sharply. Ranchers fenced the Cherokee Strip ranges after 1884, an 1886 Kansas quarantine law against Texas fever shut Texas cattle out, and the blizzard of 1887 destroyed most of the range cattle industry. The 1889 run then filled the country south of the line with farmers who built fences and towns.

What the plaque says

Bull Foot Station On the old Chisholm Trail, this station was noted for its water well. The name, from a huge in- dentation in the ground here, resembling imprint of a bull's foot. Buildings were still stand- ing on site, 50 yards east of the old trail, and 4.5 miles south of the north line of the Oklahoma land which was opened to set- tlers, by the great run, April 22, 1889. Oklahoma Historical Society

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Chisholm — 18 mi
  Kingfisher's farming and ranching museum on the Chisholm Trail's stage branch, with a heritage village and Horizon Hill, the mansion a territorial governor built for a capital that never came.
• Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center — 20 mi
  The Oklahoma Historical Society's Enid museum of the September 1893 run into the Cherokee Outlet, with the town's original land office among the old buildings out back.

More markers nearby

• First Rural Mail Route — 0.7 mi
• Roy V. Cashion — 0.8 mi
• Massacre of Pat Hennessey — 0.8 mi
• Baker's Ranch — 3.0 mi