Texas Historical Markers on the Comanche Trail into Mexico

This is a historical marker series I created for the Historic Marker Database Organization (HMDB.ORG)

While there were actually many trails utilized by Comanches in Texas, “The Comanche Trail” typically refers to that system of trails used by Comanches traveling south through Texas on raids into Mexico. This trail is sometimes called the “Comanche War Trail” or “Comanche Trace”.

Pekka Hämäläinen in his book The Comanche Empire says raids on the trail grew into a “veritable industry” generating a “massive northward flow of property from Mexico into Comancheria and its trade channels” to the north. The full extent of the trail stretched nearly 1,000 miles from Comancheria in the north, deep into Mexico. The Comanche Trail was in use for about a century, starting in the late 1700s.

I created and maintain a Texas Historical Marker Series for the Historic Marker Database Organization (HMDB.ORG) relating to the Comanche Trail into Mexico. Click on the link below to view a list of markers in Texas dedicated to the Comanche Trail into Mexico:

• Comanche Trail into Mexico

At the top of the page you will see a link that let's you map the series across Texas; on the map you can then click on the red flags to view details about that particular marker.

On a personal note, I have visited all these markers; indeed did the initial logging for all but one. I have traveled the Comanche Trail down to Mexico!