Comanche War Trail
The Comanche Trail (also called the Comanche War Trail) was less a single path than a branching network of routes used by the Comanche and allied tribes. Between the 1830s and 1850s especially, it enabled seasonal raids from Texas into Mexico, with warriors riding south in autumn and returning with livestock or captives in spring.
The trail followed sources of water across what are now West Texas, the Llano Estacado, the Pecos River crossings, and into northern Mexico, weaving through springs and draws along its many branches. One major junction was at Comanche Springs (near Fort Stockton), where legs from Presidio and Boquillas met and then headed northward into Texas and beyond.
Though visible traces of the trail are gone, parts of its route are now echoed by U.S. Route 385 through Big Bend National Park, especially through Persimmon Gap.