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Show I but prominent lava butte where researchers propose that the sma I be met the Indians on October 18, 1776, Dominquez and Escalante Gila and It is located in sections 27-28, T37N, R7W, "Bolton's The naed Hayrick." Salt River Meridian. Sheets 3,6, Maps consulted: AHD, Mohave County, USGS Quad Heaton Knol Is. (October 19 I; AMS Grand Canyon; No travel) October 20 set out from San Samuel toward the north northeast, directing our way to the ford of EI Rio Colorado and, after ignoring a low wooded and very rocky sierra that lies on this side, and having gone a little more than two On the 20th we leagues, we swung northeast and came onto flat country and without rock; then, after traveling four leagues we found And, after several banked pools of good water in an arroyo. its halted we one edge between east-northeast, by league going two bluffs which stand on the plain close to the arroyo, where We named there was a great supply of water and good pasturage. this place Santa Gertrudis, observing its latitude by the north star, which is 360 30'. Today seven leagues. RESEARCH AND c. INTERPRETATION Gregory Crampton good time riding across open country. Starting out they saw a "low wooded" They This is a ridge about 200 feet in height which runs sierra on their right. paral lei to the Spaniards' trai I for about four miles. Towering above it The are the Heaton Knol Is, a volcanic group, and a prominent landmark. the reached the east of Little Hurricane traveled to where Ridge they padres Wi Id at arrived Bul I near headstreams of Bul I Rush Wash. Rush They proper Band Pockets, in Wi Id Band Val ley (so named from large bands of wild mustangs which once throve in the area) where local informants say good water is The party fol lowed down the wash past the present found in bedrock pools. Wild Band Reservoir with the prominent hogback, Sunshine Ridge, on its right. Dominguez and Escalante came finally to a point where Bul I Rush breaks through a low, northern extension of this ridge. The two sides of the hogback appear as bluffs, and here the Santa Gertrudis camp was made. The breaks of the hogback are very prominent in an area that is practically a plain, and the campsite can be fixed positively. On this date the encountered no Spaniards made difficulties. The breaks TO,dam Bul I in Sunshine Ridge are otherwise historically interesting. Rush, perhaps in the 1870s, the Canaan Cattle Company, local informants say, bui It a dam across th opening, a dam that has long since out. But extensive remains of the dam are sti I I there as evidence of the enormous labor that went into its construction. washed -152- |
