"1849 Camp Bois de Vache ... we make use of Buffalo Chips... we were obbliged to use such fuel two nights before we reach the Santa Fe Road..." O.W. Lipe, Cherokee letter, May 11, 1849.
"...Buffalo skeletons begin to appear... Found piles of buffalo chips that Evan's Company [1849] had gathered last year. The camp fires of Evan's Company left traces that are perfectly visible so plain that I thought the Ox Team had camped here [last week]..." May 15, 1850 Diary.
This Cherokee Trail Marker is located six miles south of Goessel, Kansas, southeast of McPherson.
