Category: Historic Trails

Trail of Tears

January 20, 2026

When members of the eastern Indigenous nations were forcibly removed by the United States from their traditional homelands in the American southeast during the 1830s, they were driven west to what was then referred to as the Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. The forced removal began in 1830 with Congressional passage of the Indian Removal Act … More Trail of Tears

Butterfield Trail

January 13, 2007

The Butterfield Overland Mail Co. began operations through Northwest Arkansas in September 1858 and continued with its transcontinental stagecoach operation until the advent of the Civil War. The stagecoach line, which carried mail and passengers from St. Louis, Mo., to San Francisco, Calif., in under 26 days, proved to be one of many economic stimuli … More Butterfield Trail