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Show from Zuni was along the Rio Pescado·to EI Morro 33 mi les distant. New Mexico Highway 53 fol lows that same route today. It is likely that Esca lante and Dominguez reached that point to camp on December 13, although they left no record of it. ut there was (and is) good water there and it would have been a logical campsite. From EI way 53, the Zuni Morro the old trail continued eastward, as does present High the Continental Divide, then skirted the southern base of across Mountains. to avoid From that point the travelers took a north-northeast flow, the "Me l pa l s ;" Dominguez and Escalante probably camped one night, December 14 or 15, near the present site of San Rafael at I Gallo Spring. Although the diary does not men course tion such a extensive an it camp, lava is shown on Miera's map. Eastward from EI Gallo Spring the trail crossed the north end of the to reach the Rio San Jose about five mi les west of present McCartys 1-40. Less than a mi Ie east of McCartys a graded road leads southeast, Malpais on directly That road to Acoma. paral leis the 1776 route of the fathers • Dominguez ahd Escalante spent four nights at Acoma (December 16, 17, 19), then traveled the wei I-worn trail to Laguna Pueblo. New Mexico Highway 23 paral leis the route ·today. The fathers did not leave 22 at EI Alamo. EI Alamo unti I December on which arrived Laguna day they is not marked on present-day maps but the site is identified on Wheeler's The location is near the intersection Atlas sheet No. 77 as Sheep Spring. The route from Laguna took a north of 1-40 and New Mexico Highway 6. easterly direction for a few miles, then turned to the east-southeast, passing south of Mesa Giganta to reach the campsite. . 18, and No modern road paral leis the Spanish trai I between EI Alamo and the Isleta. However, from the Escalante diary and other sources For the first five leagues the road lay the general route can be plotted. 'paral lei to (but south of) 1-40 to the Puerco River. At that stream it The Wheeler turned east-southeast to Isleta, keeping north of Wind Mesa. The expedition Atlas sheet no. 77 shows a road along this general route. arrived there on December 23. Pueblo of The padres celebrated Christmas at Isleta before leaving for Albuquerque The route was along the west bank of the Rio Grande before December 28. fording that stream to reach Albuquerque's "Old Town". U.S. l;1ighway 85 par- on al leis that route on l today. On December 30 the fathers journeyed northward to the Pueblo of Sandia beaten road. Continuing northward the fol lowing day they arrived the well at Santo Domingo where The journey was arrived at Santa Fe. they remained completed on through January I, January 2, 2.)c· - 1777, 1777. when the expedition again |
