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Show , not able to a mile away photograph we could site of San Atanasio. the area very wei I. the see From prominences about September 3 On the 3rd again very early, and we stop; then, about eleven we it rained it to At a set out from San Atanasio toward the north. the to northwest, and quarter of a league we took had to wait for leagues and a quarter through a val ley of many poplar groves and spruce, and very abundant We turned north-northwest in pasturage and water. somewhat more than a northwest then one league, over three and good and stone less quarters league hil with some Is, passing through terrain, although rather troublesome forests, of spruce and poplar We turned north-northwest and clumps of scruboak. of a for a league through a low quarter again in which enough water flows to narrow val ley fill two middling furrows; and although it does not continue al I through the narrow val ley, since it disappears completely in some places"running in spots and in others reappearing in waterholes like ponded rain water, it seems to be perennial because throughout the entire narrow val ley there indicate that were huts and tiny dwel lings which Fol lowing it is a camping site for these Yutas. traveled two in which said an arroyo and along the northern reappears disappears side and to the northwest, we went a league and in it almost at the foot of a a half and halted the box channel of water bluff which the Yutas cal led Nabuncari, we naming the site San Silvestre. Today seven leagues. RESEARCH AND INTERPRETATION Floyd A. O'Nei I and Gregory C. Thompson one Leaving San Atanasio the party traveled northward for about rather and across elevation the around circled then and Ie mi high traveled the south face of Bronco Knob open country to Buzzard Park, at approximately the 9,BOO-foot level northwest through Wagon Park, At the west and down Plateau Creek to the Meadows. Plateau Park, the Meadows, Plateau Creek becomes the deep arroyo Escalante The party traveled to a point before Plateau Creek, turned describes. westward, and camped at San Silvestre at the foot of a high hil I (in end of Travel was seven leagues mi Ie the elevation drops 1,100 feet). (The average league of the day's 15.5 mi les by our measurement. travel equaled 2.2 mi les.) one or -78- |
