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Show spring turage RESEARCH AND of good water, firewood, and abundant Today two leagues. much for the mounts. INTERPRETATION R.W. Delaney pas and Robert McDaniel Continuing from the camp at Fuente de la Guia (probably Cottonwood Creek), the expedition went generally east-southeast across the Uncompahgre Plateau. They came to Red Canyon, a very deep one, and descended its steep northern end and camped there on the branch of Horsefly Creek which runs through the canyon. Their new guide was taking them on a longer but much easier route to the Uncompahgre River. canyon on the southeast flank of the traveler along that edge of the have been wei I known to the Utes for its it would plateau. Undoubtedly water and excel lent game. good Red mesa Canyon and would is by far the have been noted deepest by any RESEARCH r'ETHODS We returned to Colorado easterly direction. and walked over to We could Highway 90 and continued along it in a general the very deep Red Canyon from the road it and the place where the route descended see photograph high plateau. We returned to the road and continued a short We then walked again to the edge of the plateau to photograph tance. route of a branch of Horsefly Creek. from the August On the 25th we set out 25 from La Canada Honda toward east, league through dense clumps we to the southeast over less encum oak; swung bered terrain, and went along the same path for three leagues and a half; then, having gone another half to ward the east, we now began crossing the sierra in a northeasterly direction, and at the end of a league and a half of good terrain, now unencumbered and without any laborious slope, we reached its top. It is an eminence of very good pastures, and of pleasant scenery due to the thickets and beautiful poplar groves, briefly spaced from one another, which it bear. There are three paths here, and woe fol lowed the one going northeast. Having gone a league and a half in this direction, we halted whi Ie sti I I on the northern flank of the sierra, and by a cop i ous spr i ng of good water that we named E I Ojo de Lain, which comes out about six ordinary paces est from the path. Before any repast could be prepared, which we needed badly enough al I along, a ful I heavy downpour fel I. Today seven leagues and a half. and the of traveled half a scrub . -68- dis the |
