I'm living in North Carolina at this time, after 38 years in Texas. I ran across the KZread Texas Country Reporter. Instantly, I became homesick. At 75, going on 76 I pray I live another 18 months so I can move back.

Awesome story TCR. There's a lot history through out the U.S. about marker trees that still needs to be discovered.

Interesting and thought-provoking. One of my favorite episodes I've seen. I love Texas Country Reporter! Thank you for continuing to bring us unique stories about all things Texas!!!

I’ve watched you from day one, long before it was Texas Country Reporter. I never tire of your show. Thanks.

@fromtexasbygod

7 ай бұрын

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Love this story of Texas, Me a 4th Gen Texan, My children 5th and my grandbabies 6th Generation. I am 71 now and i have watched Texas Country Reporter for years, before it was TCR, always loved the show! TY For what you guys do, keeping the great past alive, so my grandbabies can see how Texas came about, and that they could spend a lifetime, never going out of Texas, and could never see it all! TY Phillips team your greatly appreciated. from SE Texas Orange :)

@elpacho....9254

7 ай бұрын

Texas, like New Mexico used to be old Mexico a few generations ago; my great grandfather was born in 1848 in El Paso Texas. My grandfather and father are buried in the same cemetery as my great grandfather in Texas.

I just read that you fine people are retiring. I hope you enjoy the rest of your days. You have brought a lot of joy to many of us.

I'll never forget when I learned about the marker trees. As a kid I saw many trees like this in Texas,whether they were marker trees or not I dont know. But I like to think they were.

Had the opportunity to take a couple walks in the woods to discuss trees with Steve in the past years as a NTMN, he is an incredible Arborist & a wonderful caring person. These marker trees are just special, take some time & go take a walk.

Thanks for sharing. I grew up in North Texas during the 1950s. Bent trees were numerous and I was always told Indians used them as markers. We were about two miles North of Three Forks of the Trinity and two miles West of the Elm Fork of the Trinity.

What a proud, beautiful story these trees have to tell ALL of us in America! Thank you to Comanches in days past for being creative, industrious and kind. 🥰

@sammyday3341

8 ай бұрын

I hope you’re kidding about the Comanche being kind!

@ATXhulk

4 ай бұрын

@@sammyday3341If you spoke Comanche/Apache and paid tribute in horses/rifles, you could hunt and live, prior to a certain point. By 1832 every Native American on continent was in a war with the United States.

Been a fan of Texas Country Reporter since the 70s. I'm nearly certain that I have one on my farm, 15 miles south of the Red River. The tree, very old but still alive, points due north.

Thank you for living history😲🌳🌳🌳

I’ve watched TCR since I was a boy on KLRN or KLRU. So much nostalgia

Great piece! Thank you TCR. Founders' Oak in Landa Park, New Braunfels is a Comanche Council Oak! It will be recognized in a special event Saturday, Oct 21 at 11am (Arbor Day Celebration too).

@edgarbaring6319

8 ай бұрын

We had our family reunion at landa park our site was at one of these beautiful oak trees, they are one of my favorite trees so big for shade and attract wildlife.

I am so glad he is out there telling and showing people these amazing trees. They are all over North America. The Ute do as well, some of them. I wish he would come to Colorado Springs and look at the tree behind my house.

Marker tree is a natural phenomenon.

I did that when I was younger. Wait I still do that at 64 years old. Love it.

Thanks Texas ❣️

Loved learning about marker trees. Thank you🦚🥰

There's one of these trees in the Duck Creek greenbelt in Garland TX. Near a sidewalk along the east side of the creek.

We have one that I found in a park in Illinois not far from my childhood home. When I was a kid it was out necking tree. When I found out what it was 10 years ago I made a trip home to see it. It had grown a lot and was not looking in as good a shape as it was in the 60s. It was setup along a rise above a creek that led down to the Mississippi river. I told a few classmates and "neck-mates" about it and everyone thought I was wacko. O well. Chief Blackhawk was of one of the local tribes. His statue is in Blackhawk Park in Rock Island.

How cool! That last shot is absolutely gorgeous, I’d buy a print of that. 😊

Very interesting! My g-g-g-g-grandfather helped negotiate a treaty with the Indians on behalf of Sam Houston at Bird's Fort. Makes me wonder if he knew about these trees.

There's one old mesquite in Centerpoint TX and I have an Oak on my property, right in front of a canyon hideout. What an awesome place to live

@JWayne-ej4jy

Ай бұрын

Yes. Many in our area🎉 So very fine 🎉

This is awesome.

Amazing

I may have one in my backyard. Someone once told me that it was a Indian marker tree. It's bent over 90° in the direction of the lake. I didn't think it was old enough. Now I am unsure. Highland Village TX.

There was a marker tree on my grandfather’s farm near Maiden Rock, Wisconsin.

What a great video. Over here in south central I have seen some trees like that, one of them in our property, doesn't look natural, it is still alive and looks old, but not sure 300 years old. My daughter had mention something about this, and now with your video it feels even more interesting, to learn more about it!

Shawnee did the same thing in Ohio, ive seen quite a few in my yrs of wandering around the woods

There is a huge ancient oak at the treatment center by Texas state that points down to spring lake and head way of the San Marcos river

Fantastic story TCR! Thanks for another gem!

Incredible information!!

Oh wow. That’s an amazing story. I’ve seen some of those trees before. I had no clue about this.

Facinating~!

That's really cool information.

Great video. I will look at trees very differently now.

Very cool 😎

I have found several of them around East Texas, I have no clue what most of them are marking, maybe a old trail. Lots of mounds though out Texas also

Bastrop is full of em marking the Colorado.

@PaulElmont-fd1xc

8 ай бұрын

Wow! I'd so love to see one.

In the river bottoms of Trinity River my grandfather owned land and had a pecan tree that grew up from the ground and grew horizontally for a good 20 feet before turning upwards. The trunk was two feet in diameter, the stupid power company cut it down when they ran power to the area. My grandfather went before the city council he was furious!!!!

I saw one of these in flagstaff at a Airbnb. I sent the owner a picture.it pointed due north.

70 y.o. here. My grandmother told me about these in the NE U.S. BTW Hwy 41 which runs from Miami, Florida to the very highest point in MIchigan was said to have been based on an Indian trail.

@gordogo

8 ай бұрын

A busy road named Joppa road in Baltimore county MD is a indian trail called the Joppa trail

We have alot of those in Mississippi too

There is a potential marker tree a few miles south of San Saba on Cr-310.

Very interesting.

There is no telling how many of these trees get cut down every day.

I had one on my place north of Tyler pointing to a spring, it died about 10 years ago.

@z-z-z-z

8 ай бұрын

caddo marker tree?

We have marker trees in Georgetown near San Gabriel River.

That’s cool I watch another KZread channel. They bought some new property and it has an Indian marker tree on it pointing toward the creek.

I will look for these on our farm. Two years ago I researched how the people from Asia and Russia crossed the ice bridge, Beringia, connecting to Alaska. They were some of the 1st. People to come to North America and later were called the Paleoindians. Then I learned how they made tools out of stones. I have found many of the tools on our farm.

Got one in front yard!

way back in the 1980's in grad school in archeology, my advisor told me a story about what happened when a state of texas road crew chopped down a marker tree. and I quote, there was no end of sh1t for the crew and leaders of that road crew.

When I was a child my parents took us camping in the Ouachita mountains were my dad's family was raised after the "LONG WALK" the Choctaw people called it or the removal from states to the east, while in the area where my grandmother was raised was a to roadside park with new benches to sit and eat at, there was a spring that had a flight of stairs to walk down to get water from a spring, but there were also trees bent sideways that made a turn straight up and we always took pictures of some of us sitting on one of them, staring was it was in a big curve on the side of a mountain as you twisted toward Mena heading north and it was on the left side of the road, by now my grandmother is gone to heaven and i wonder if she could tell us if it may have been part of a trail with all these hints of water and direction, we did not have internet till after she passed away, but she seemed to have known about that area she was born and raised in Wickes Arkansas were hwy 71 and 171 takes you to her old stomping ground and then onto Mena, beautiful area and close to Oklahoma State line, she said all the roads were Indian trails first then the corp of engineers black topped the roads as they widened them, I remember when they were gravel and got graded by a road grader. The Cassatott river was were THIER tribe crossed to come from east side of the mountain to the west that took you to Wickes, my grandmother's brothers were in WWII and one was an engineer over the road work and built a lot of the bridges and roadways, plus they were professed with dynamite blowing wells for water, the low water bridge on the river is where we camped at, by now there is a lodge area up on the road to the big bridge. We swam and had such good memories there sleeping on the ground, one night a cow came up in the camp and snorted waking us up, but we had a good time. Wouldn't take nothing for those great memories.

fascinating

Very cool also very sad to see what we’ve done to the past

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My brother has some pecan trees in San Saba County like that

There's what I call a creek, but the city calls a drainage ditch behind my house. Last year a company bought all the property between me and the road approximately a quarter mile away. There was what looked very much like a marker tree near the creek. That company destroyed that tree and all of the other trees by bull dozing them. It is so sad to look out the window and see mobil homes stacked basically one on top of the other instead of all the huge trees that used to be there.

There was one near my house in Mid-Michigan. It has been cut down, and there is no legally protected status.

Where was this filmed?

Just how old does he think that tree is, and what native needed anything to point them to water, or ANYPLACE?

I know of a two in Oklahoma

I have one like that on my property. It is getting pretty old now. I hope it stays alive for a bit longer. Don't know who did it. There is another one about a half a mile north of me on the other side of a ravine.

You really expect me to believe that tree is 250 years old????? (I don't think so scooter.)

That tree is not as old as he mentioned. The reason for market trees is actual history. The tree they show is not an authentic "Comanche market tree".

I would pf thought them trees where from storm damage.

Everyone else calls them "Trail Trees"

Amazed the woke crowd aren't screaming to change signs to "native American marker tree". I grew up as part Cherokee Indian, but to me native just means born here.

Are there any Indian folk history about "marker trees"?

This is a myth

Has anyone followed their direction? Or do they point at anything important?

"Indian marker trees" are 99% bullshit. These trees are being created by the millions every single day when trees fall on other trees. Every tree that bent over here, is considered by many to be a marker tree. It's both sad a funny.

In today's society political correctness has everything to be described by the correct definition and as an indigenous person, Indians are from India and I don't believe America was discovered by india,get it right😪🤔

A lot of so-called "Indian marker trees" are natural formations AND natural occurrences. Don't be fooled.

Hate to break it to tcr, but this has been proven not to be true.

No such thing as Indians When do we start calling them by Tribe or Native American.

@claycooper5937

8 ай бұрын

It literally says Comanche in the title of the video and he said Comanche numerous times

@TheBlueDogMan

8 ай бұрын

There’s a whole continent of people called Indians. One of the largest populations on earth. Maybe you meant to say the word Indian is incorrectly applied to the original settlers in the Americas.

I e seen saplings growing the same way. Don’t believe this crap

A well and wide spread myth. 🙄 👎