Jimmy's Camp Trail The site was located on Jimmy's Camp Trail, along old Native American trails which became the
Trapper's Trail and
Cherokee Trail, which ran between the
North Platte,
South Platte and
Arkansas Rivers. There was another trail that ran closer through present-day Colorado Springs along the foothills. It approximates the route of
Interstate 25, but the trail was not as safe as this more direct route used by many Native Americans and trappers because it was safer and not frequented by hostile Native Americans.
Trading post, stage station and camp site Jimmy built a cabin
Trappers,
Utes and other Native Americans traded furs and food (deer, buffalo, other game, and corn) for goods, guns and whiskey that Jimmy acquired from the East. In addition to shade afforded by pine and cottonwood trees, there was plenty of grass for grazing around the spring. The first recorded trapper to use the trail past Jimmy's Camp Creek was
William Sublette (1829).
Kit Carson came through in 1831.
Namesake Jimmy's Camp was often said to have been named after Jimmy Daugherty, who had been a member of Major
Stephen Harriman Long's expedition. He was believed to have built a cabin in the 1820s or 1830s. Jimmy Camp Creek was first called Daugherty Creek. ==Jimmy Camp Ranch==