Jeff Bearden, Co-Chair of the Vernon Rotary Club "Marking the Great Western Trail" project (standing second to left), presented Pleasanton with a cattle trail marker.
This project has been in the works for many years as the original marker was lost. It was through the partnership of the Pleasanton Rotary Club, City of Pleasanton, and the Atascosa County Historical Commission that the marker was finally erected on the City Hall lawn. The Great Western Trail was blazed in 1874 by cattle-drover John T. Lytle, who herded 3,500 longhorn cattle along the leading edge of the frontier from South Texas to the Red Cloud Indian Agency at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
 
The lower portion of the GWCT was referred to as the Matamoros Feeder Trail. This trail passed through Pleasanton on the eastern side of the Atascosa River. Pictured are Pleasanton Rotarians Bobby Kinsel, Boyd Grimshaw, Craig Dowdy, John Ulbricht.