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Today I worked way down south in Rocksprings, TX...  Just outside there is a marker that indicates the Mackenzie Trail that crossed the now Hwy 55 and connected Forts Clark and McKavett.

I used the action scripts from The Pioneer Woman.  Did I mention I love  LOVE Photoshop!??! (not to mention her...)
This was using her Old West Action Script.   It's a little washed out in the sky because it was one of those overcast, but really bright days...
And being in the hurry that I was... well, I didn't take the time to put on the UV filter.

For those interested the marker reads:

Mackenzie Trail

(Merged at this point into SH 55)

When the U.S. Army built Forts Clark (70 MI SW) and McKavett (90 MI NE) in 1852, this frontier trail connected the posts.  After Fort Concho was established in 1867, the trail was extended farther north, to present San Angelo. It was later named for Col. Ranald S Mackenzie, the 1873 Commander of Fort Clark, who traveled it in his campaigns against hostile indians. One of its landmarks was Mackenzie Lake (6.5 MI N) which furnished water for the troops, for settlers, and for Texas Rangers on frontier patrols.

(1977)