When was the goodnight loving trail established

Charles Goodnight — Blazing a Cattle Trail. Oliver Loving — Pioneer Cowboy. Primary Menu Skip to content. Cattle Trails Map. Oliver Loving. Two more cattle drives used this route - later in and finally in the spring of - before moving the origination point to South Texas by way of San Antonio and then on to San Angelo and then north up the Pecos River. At the age of 54, Oliver Loving died in on their third trail drive, from wounds suffered in a Comanche Indian attack in New Mexico.

However, Goodnight continued to drive cattle along the trail and sold huge numbers of cattle to John Illif who had recently created the open range. Goodnight was so successful his Texan ranch expanded to one million acres!

Company Reg no: VAT reg no Main menu. Returning north, Goodnight further "straightened out" the trail by leaving the Pecos north of Fort Sumner and traveling north to Alamogordo Creek and across the plains via Cuervo Creek and its tributaries to a spot on the Canadian River twenty miles west of Fort Bascom.

From there he proceeded to the Cimarron Seco west of Capulin Mountain. In order to avoid Dick Wootton's toll road, Goodnight opened a new, easier passageway through Tinchera Pass into Colorado. The Goodnight-Loving Trail was thus routed, and although Goodnight himself made only one more delivery at Cheyenne, many cattle concerns from Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado used all or portions of the trail extensively until the advent of railroads in the Southwest in the early s.

The trail was sometimes known simply as the Goodnight Trail.