Ozark Trail (auto trail)

Ozark Trail
Ozark Trail
	St. Louis, Missouri
Southwest end	El Paso, Texas; Santa Fe, New Mexico;
Location
Country	United States
States	Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico
Highway system
	Auto trails;

The Ozark Trail was a network of locally maintained roads and highways organized by the Ozark Trails Association that predated the

Oklahoma City, as the first federal highway project built in Oklahoma.^[2]

These roads comprised the major highway system in the region until

U.S. Highway 66 was built in the 1920s. In Oklahoma, portions of the section-line roads between Anadarko and Hobart

Route

The Ozark Trails Association were a group of private citizens that tried to encourage local municipalities to build and maintain road systems in the

Federal Aid Highway Act of 1925, which finally incorporated the Deep South into the Federal roads program

William Hope "Coin" Harvey was closely associated with the organization.^[6]

^ [1] Archived 2007-03-09 at the Wayback Machine "Ozark Trail", Ohio State University-Marion
^ [2]"Oklahoma Historical Society". 2020-04-21.
^ "Four States Build Road". Robinson Constitution. Robinson, Crawford County, Illinois. October 15, 1913. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
^ "Ozark Trails Men Arrive At No Decision". The Christian Science Monitor. August 14, 1916. Retrieved 30 April 2010. Nearly 2000 persons attended the annual convention of the Ozark Trails Association...
^ "Ozark Trail Plans New Travel Route". The Christian Science Monitor. Boston, Mass. July 1, 1916. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
^ "Knew "Coin" Harvey". The Southeast Missourian. Cape Girardeau, Missouri. February 12, 1936. Retrieved 30 April 2010. Mr. Harvey was a booster for good roads for tears, particularly in northwest Arkansas and southwest MIssouri.