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Show From the top of the Kaibab the Spaniards went east-northeast and came down over the steep eastern side of the plateau about a mile and a half north of the Winter Road. Camp on October 22-23 was made at or very near Sec. 13, T4IN, R3E, G and SR Meridian, cal led by them San There is no other springwater The location is definite. Juan Capistrano. The spring, later covered over by drifting north or south for several mi les. sands, was reportedly revealed to ranchers by coyotes who dug down to water. later developed and in a constant penci I-thin stream now fi I Is was The Coyote Spring, spring a pond on sup P lie d the ranch owned by Trevor Leach, info rma t i on w i. th us resident of Kanab, Utah, who • camp was on the sandy benches east-northeast of the spring a short distance from and about a hundred feet above the bed of In th is a rea, among pin i on and j un i per trees we found ab un dant Coyote \oIJash. of flint quantities chipplngs, but only a few pot sherds, indicative of an The locafion; with fires burning, would have been seen easi Iy Indian camp. by the Spaniards as they worked their way down the Kaibab's eastern slope. The pools of water mentioned in the diary were probably located at the base The spring at that time of the red sandstone Coyote Buttes east of camp. {the "red earthen bluffs"} to the was probably at the base of a sand dune Spaniards' The west-southwest of the Indian camp. RESEARCH METHODS By fol lowing roads closely paral lei to the trail, we found it possible Over the to survey the entire route from the campsite at Santa Barbara. Kaibab we fol lowed a fair dirt road close to the northern rim of Buck On top of the plateau thii is joined by the "Old Arizona Pasture Canyon. We dropped down as it is marked by the BLM. the the Winter Road which reaches of Kaibab on steep slope the floor of the Narrow Coyote Wash Val ley about a mile and a half southwest At the ranch we made a thorough reconnaissance of the area of Coyote Ranch. Road," over on or the Honeymoon Tra l l , eastern the foot. The survey was accomplished by Jane Rusho, W. L. Rusho, and C. Gregory on June 19, 1975. We were assisted by Wayne B. Erickson and William Arizona Strip District, Bureau of Land Management, St. George, Utah. Crampton Sprauer, Maps consulted: USGS Quads Shinarump, House County, Wheets 4, 14; AMS Grand Cpnyon. Rock Spring; AHD Coconino October 24 On the 24th, about nine in the morning or a little later, set out from San Juan Capistrano through a narrow val ley heading south-southeast, and after going four leagues we turned we southeast within the same val ley. -157- Here at the base of the val ley's |
