Site of the Trading Post

Jones and Joseph H. Plummer built it of cottonwood pickets and sod in the fall of 1874, with a bar and living quarters, and it gained a reputation as a safe place for outlaws to resupply: in the winter of 1878 Bat Masterson and a posse from Dodge City chased train robbers down the trail and lost them at the store. Plummer ended the partnership in July 1878, raced horses in Dodge for a while and then vanished into obscurity. Jones later sold to the Barton brothers, and the post became headquarters for Hank Cresswell.

What the plaque says

Established by C. E. Jones in 1874 on the Jones and Plummer Trail which extended from Dodge City, Kansas, to Mobeetie. Here food and cloth were traded to Indians for hides and later ranchmen purchased general supplies hauled from Dodge City. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Museum of the Plains — 13 mi
  Perryton's four-acre museum of the wheat country at the top of Texas, with an 1899 depot, five historic buildings and a life-size Hank the Cowdog, whose author grew up here.
• Canadian River Wagon Bridge — 28 mi
  The longest pin-connected bridge in Texas, 3,255 feet of Parker trusses across the Canadian River at Canadian, built for wagons in 1916 and reopened as a footpath in 2000.
• River Valley Pioneer Museum — 28 mi
  The Hemphill County museum in Canadian, a Santa Fe division town of 1887 on the river breaks that held one of the first commercial rodeos in Texas and voted itself dry in 1903.
• The Citadelle Art Museum — 29 mi
  A 1910 Baptist church saved from demolition in 1977, made into a family home filled with art, and given to Canadian in 2009 as one of the Panhandle's few art museums.

More markers nearby

• Ochiltree Townsite — 6.7 mi
• Notla Community — 11 mi
• George Morgan Perry — 12 mi
• Colonel William B. Ochiltree — 12 mi