Loving Cemetery
by Imagery by Charly
Title
Loving Cemetery
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Imagery by Charly
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Angels standing watch on the gates of Loving Cemetery. Small town Loving, Texas was once part of the Lost Valley Loving Ranch and is on the Goodnight-Loving Trail.
A bit of history:
In the spring-early summer of 1866, Charles Gooding and Oliver Loving, whom Loving, TX was named, drove their herd of Longhorns for the first time over the Butterfield Overland Mail route. They drove their second herd bought from John Chisum from his Concho River range to Fort Sumner later that summer.
In fall of 1866, Loving blazed the northern extension of the Gooding-Loving Trail. It intially ran north from Fort Sumner up the Pecos to Las Vegas. Then it followed the Sante Fe Trail to Raton Pass and around the Rockies base via Trinidad and Pueblo to Denver, Colorado.
"Uncle Dick" Wooten set up a toll at Raton Pass, charging Goodnight 10 cents per head. While Goodnight complied, it wasn't without protest. He set up a ranch and cattle-relay station at the head of Apishapa Canyon, 40 miles northeast of Trinidad.
Goodnight struck a deal in 1868 with John Wesley Iliff in which he agreed to deliver his cattle to Iliff at the Union Pacific Railroad town of Cheyenne, WY. Goodnight opened a new and easier passage through the Tinchera Pass into Colorado to bypass Wooten's toll.
All or portions for the Goodnight-Loving Trail was used extensively until the advent of the railroads in the early 1880's.
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