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Show September 20 On the 20th we set out from San Eustaquio, leaving was the one dead one of the strongest horses we had--it Rio de San which had broken its neck at Santa Cruz del but a gradual long We went southwest up Buenaventura. little less than three a for west then swung incline, stretch of sagebrush, flat leagues and a quarter over a of sma I I pear-cactus. lot but bothersome, and with a ley, amp'I e a nd gent I y quarter-league's going south-southwest west again, went down to a smal I river whic and could be the one we previously named San We ente red sloping, and at we turned runs east Cosme. short a na rrow va I a river, and to the west-southwest spreading incl ine, but gradual and We crossed the another went up after a mi Ie we swung to the south easy to travel; then, west for nearly two leagues through a very pretty and pleasant narrow val ley with the most abundant pastures. We halted at the end of the narrow val ley, at a smal I deal of pasturage, and which in the marsh with a we good good water spring that we named Ojo de Santa Lucia. Tonight it was so cold that even the water which stood close to the fire al I night was frozen by morning. Today nine leagues. middle has RESEARCH AND a Jerome Stoffel INTERPRETATION and George E. Stewart previously, we have suggested that the campsite of San Eustaquio approximately two mi les northwest of where U. S. the only location Highway 40 crosses the same creek. This would seem to be where it can be said that, leaving it, they went "sou+hwes+ up a long, but It Corrected from compass read i ng, th is gradua I inc line, then swung west. As noted was wou located Id in Red Creek and "west-northwest." read "west-southwest" The trail (as does an old road) from there makes for the head of a iittle over two miles a into Currant Creek valley and then drops Cross i ng the stream to the southwest it moun+s upstream from Highway 40. as does the old wagon road into the Uinta Basin. a reasonably "gentle slope I-worn and wei an old is trail, mounting to a shal low pass and thence Contiguous_ west-southwest to a junction with Highway 40 as it rises out of the deep From here the trail and modern highway mount lower regions of Deep Creek. shallow Some a pass some three mi les distant before descending to Soldier Creek. half-mi Ie before reaching the summIt to the right of the highway-fi I I in a draw are the meadows, springs, and marshes of the campsite of Ojo de Santa At this time of the year (July 1975) the spring consisted of many Lucia. to vents. Nearby is the old road +o the Uinta -110- Basin. |
