Enid, Oklahoma

The Oklahoma town of Enid—population 50,000—is near where J.D. Payne ran cattle at his Skeleton Ranch, which became a stage station on the Chisholm Trail after 1874. Bob Klemme of Enid began marking the Chisholm Trail across Oklahoma on November 30, 1990. Klemme set his last of about 400 concrete markers on the Express Ranch roughly three miles north of Yukon, Oklahoma, on September 19, 1997. “I had fun every day, even if I hurt myself,” Klemme says, “and I met so many nice p