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Show RESEARCH METHODS returned to the gravel road and traveled west paral lei to the junction of that road and Colorado Highway 151, which roughly parallels the Dominguez-Escalante route from Arboles to Ignacio, Colorado 151 is probably just#a little to the east of the Colorado. We river to the We turned south on La Plata County by the expedition. and lush valley of the Pine River south the broad Road 322 to photograph after our It is of Ignacio. belief, looking at the land traversed, that of the present-day town of Ignacio. a mile south more than not they camped route traversed On the 8th we set out west-northwest from La de San Cayentano and Rio de los Pinos, and at the end of four leagues arrived at EI Rio Florido, which is medium-sized and sma I ler than that of Los Vega Pinos. It rises in the same sierra farther to the large meadow, good land for farming with the aid of ir rigation the pastures on the meadow are good, but not in the immediate vicinity, although it evidently has them in wet years. Having crossed EI Rio Florido, we traveled west two leagues, and west-northwest a We went down a rocky little more than another two. and not too lengthy incline and arrived at EI Rio de las Animas, near the western point of La Sierra de We crossed it la Plata where it has its origin. It is as large as and halted on the opposite side. and where west, we crossed it has a and of that of EI Norte, and now carried somewhat more water and with greater rapidity, because here its currents which run from north to south have a steeper fal I, and it flows like the foregoing ones into that of the Navajo. Through here it runs channel, but farther down it is said through to have meadows. Today eight leagues, a little There is no good pasturage here, but there is more. a some RESEARCH AND a box little farther INTERPRETATION on. R. W. Delaney and Robert McDaniel Examination of the terrain indicates that the expedition probably in a more direct route than that fol lowed by present-day In all probabi lity, they paral feled that Colorado Highway 172. traveled From higher rises highway somewhat to the south, across a broad plain. along the way they would have had a fine view of the La Plata Mountains whose southern end they intended to skirt. They would have crossed the Florida River in the vicinity of the present bridge on Colorado 172. -46- |
