Horsehead Crossing played host to its annual Trails of Time Living History event Oct. 28-29 with live cannon fire, chuck wagon meals and camping along the Pecos River. Vendors sold their wares while historians and presenters told the story of 19th-century Pecos County. Tom Ashmore spoke on the history of Horsehead Crossing from its beginning as a Comanche trail, to 1850 when John R. Bartlett found the crossing while surveying the Mexican Boundary. The crossing was marked by the skulls of horses and mules. Also a military road to Fort Stockton, the Southern Overland mail route and the road west from Fort Concho crossed there, and the Goodnight-Loving Trail was established in 1866, driving longhorns through to Colorado. Richard Gonzalez gave presentations on the Lipan Apache and the 1873 cavalry raids against the Lipan and Kickapoo. Photos by Shawn Yorks

Horsehead Crossing played host to its annual Trails of Time Living History event Oct. 28-29 with live cannon fire, chuck wagon meals and camping along the Pecos River. Vendors sold their wares while historians and presenters told the story of 19th-century Pecos County. Tom Ashmore spoke on the history of Horsehead Crossing from its beginning as a Comanche trail, to 1850 when John R. Bartlett found the crossing while surveying the Mexican Boundary. The crossing was marked by the skulls of horses and mules. Also a military road to Fort Stockton, the Southern Overland mail route and the road west from Fort Concho crossed there, and the Goodnight-Loving Trail was established in 1866, driving longhorns through to Colorado. Richard Gonzalez gave presentations on the Lipan Apache and the 1873 cavalry raids against the Lipan and Kickapoo.