The Jones and Plummer Trail

The Jones and Plummer Trail was established in the fall of 1874 when two former buffalo hunters turned merchants and freighters. These two men Charles Edward (Dirty Face) Jones and Joseph H. Plummer, established a store at the head of Wolf Creek. Jones marked the trail, and the partners' trips to and from Dodge City to deliver hides and buffalo meat and purchase goods cut ruts into the sod deep enough for others to follow. From Dodge City, the trail angled southwest, paralleling Crooked Creek, to cross it and the Cimarron River near the Oklahoma-Kansas line. From there, it continued to Beaver, Oklahoma. At Beaver, the Dodge City Trail branched off to the southwest.

"The Jones and Plummer Trail" is the story of a group of 50 buffalo hunters who left Dodge City in early March of 1874 to travel south to Texas panhandled to hunt the last of the buffalo herds.  The Jones and Plummer Trail is an excerpt from the book Return of the Great Hunters.