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Show available to us) canyon (unnamed on any maps Dolores to the just east and which runs north-south and which opens up were a little south of Cahone. probably joined by their two (They the unwelcome companions before entering canyon). Dolores." They There is deep a then crossed the river twice which west bank and camped just opposite where placed them again on the Narragrunnep Creek enters the Dolores. There is a smal I level place here which would have provided the necessary forage for the animals, and firewood would have been no To reach this spot one has to stop at Brewer's Ranch and walk problem. directly north traveled on along Mr. the river. Brewer's house Is located on the west bank of the Dolores near the bridge which spans the river. The closest road for today's traveler goes along the river from Dolores on the east side, whereas the Dominguez-Escalante expedition the west side of the fiver almost the entire day_ RESEARCH METHODS we drove the unnumbered Montezuma County road fol lows the river on the east side to a place just opposite the extinct town of McPhee (now part of the ranch owned by Roy Shepard), We where the expedition crossed the Dolores the first time that day_ Dolores of north and east Is had previously climbed the high hil just which Leaving Dolores, Big Bend of the river and the route from the campsite. From the point opposite McPhee we could see the mesa west of the river along which they traveled before hitting the Dolores again. We contin ued along the unnumbered gravel road to the bridge that crosses the After consulting the Brewers, we retraced Dolore at Brewer's Ranch. our route back over the river and took a Forest Service road to a point where we could see the confluence of Narraguinnep Creek with the Dolores We then returned to Brewer's and photograph the probable campsite. to v.iew the and walked downstream a short way to be graphed the most probable site for the camp. Ranch On 15th the from La Asuncion set out we through a that we had photo 15 August Rio de Dolores) sure canyon of traveled a (on EI ruggedness quarter-league some and rock, along which we We then took to the north to the west-northwest. west and, after a little less than a league and a half of travel, turned north-northwest and went over a sagebrush for one a stretch of little league more than northwest good and almost level terrain leagues. We turned and, after going another three again which, of from farthest spl its, we had been fol lowing since La Asuncion--we paused to rest in a sma I I arroyo which two and a half west and the two into which the river--the one over it the trail swerves -55- |
