Upper Coushatta Trace
The Upper Coushatta Trace was an alternate, wet-weather route of the Coushatta Trace.
It branched off the latter in what is now eastern Grimes County and ran
northward, while the main Coushatta Trace continued eastward en route
to a Coushatta village on the east bank of the Sabine River. The Upper
Coushatta Trace was used by a substantial number of Stephen F. Austin's
colonists entering the future Grimes County to locate homesteads. After
passing near the sites of Anderson, Shiro, and Roans Prairie, it turned
eastward into what is now Walker County and proceeded across higher
ground north of the headwaters of the San Jacinto River. It next passed
through the southern part of the future Walker County and rejoined the
principal trace at the Battise Village
on the west bank of the Trinity River, at a site now in San Jacinto
County. Surveyors' field notes for some of the land surveys in this area
refer to this trail as the contraband or smugglers' road. The principal
Coushatta Trace went across Montgomery County and provided the most
direct route from Austin's colony on the Brazos River to the Battise
Village. The disadvantage of this route, however, was that it went
across the drainage basin of the San Jacinto River, which was difficult
to traverse in wet weather. W. P. Zuber, a veteran of the battle of San Jacinto, wrote that his family lived near the Upper Coushatta Trace and used it in the Runaway Scrape in 1836. TSHA
Texas State Historical Association
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/upper-coushatta-trace
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/coushatta-trace
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/coushatta-nacogdoches-trace
The Historical Marker Database
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=118974
Stephen F. Austin State University
https://www.sfasu.edu/heritagecenter/8624.asp
The Alamo
https://www.thealamo.org/remember/battle-and-revolution/defenders/jonathan-lindley
TSLAC
https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=Upper+Coushatta+Trace+texas+walker+county&atb=v335-1&ia=web
angelfire.com
https://www.angelfire.com/tx/TCGS/trace1.html