This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. Old Coronado really started something in Texas—trails. Back in 1540 he failed to find either the fabled cities of Cibola or Indian maidens coated in gold, but during his tortured wanderings south of Amarillo he did create the first serious Texas trail. It came from obscurity and headed to oblivion, but it left its mark. From then on Texans didn’t feel like Texans unless they made trails. Even 330 years later, names like Chisholm and Goodnight-Loving became famous because they ended in “Trail.” In modern times Roy Rogers and Dale Evans won their way…The post Happy Trails to You appeared first on Texas Monthly.