Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-303) and index.
Contents
The Dodge City-Panhandle region -- The Dodge City-Fort supply trail: from military road to commercial highway -- The Fort Elliott extension and the Mobeetie-Tascosa trail: the base of the triangle -- The Jones and Plummer trail: the freighting road to the Panhandle -- The Dodge City-Tascosa trail: the link between the sister cow towns -- Freighting: a grimy business fit only for peculiar men -- P.G. Reynolds: mail contractor and entrepreneur of the wagon road -- Stage drivers: the men in the box -- Way stations and the people who ran them: guideposts marking the trails.