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Show Escalante's failure to describe the topography, forced the researchers into check of To examine the Awatobi Spring alter alternatives. time-consuming native, the researchers, W. L. Rusho, C. Gregory Crampton, and Don Cecala, traveled by dirt road"to the old ruin of Awatobi Pueblo, located on the crest of a high mesa. From that point a view could be obtained of Talahogan Canyon, Awatobi Spring, and Jadito Wash Valley. a Clarence Hami Iton, a security inspector for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, "apprehended" the researchers at the Awatobi ruin, obviously When he was shown bel ieving at first that he had caught some pot hunters. the permit signed by the vice-chairman of the Hopi Tribe, however, Mr. Hami Iton al lowed the researchers to continue Although Keams Canyon did not real ize unti I was visited on on July their way. 8, the researchers 7 and Spaniard's "Ojo later that the del Canuti 110" was actually in that shal low gorge. On September 2, 1975, C. Gregory Crampton, W. L. Rusho, and Melvin T. Smith again visited Keams Canyon and at that time examined the springs and the various possible campsites. They also consulted Loren and Bruce McGee, proprietors of the store and trading post at Keams Canyon On over Viii age. 1975, Rusho September 4, the route Crampton made an aerial Canyon and beyond. and from Polacca to Keams Maps used: USGS AMS Flagstaff; USGS Quadrangles Canyon; AHD Navajo County Sheets 10 and I I. reconnaissance Polacca and Keams November 21 we left EI Ojo del Canutillo toward the after and, going three leagues, two southeast, then going another two a little more to the east, we halted more than a half a league this side of the little wqter Esti ladero, or Ojito del Penasco. source cal led EI Today On the 21st northeast seven RESEARCH AND leagues. w. INTERPRETATION From their Keams Canyon campsite the Spaniards L. Rusho fol lowed the natural trai I up the canyon to the northeast, passing the future (1863) Kit Carson inscription and the large spring where Thomas Keam establishd his first trading post in 1875. At a point near the present Twin Dams they left the three canyon to the east, then turned again to the northeast to head the At a point about three miles from the canyon they branches of Jadito Wash. Upon turned east and continued in this direction for another four mi les. south-southeast for a total of then turned wash the southeast, they heading five mi les. Camp was made on or near Beshbito Wash about a mi Ie and a half It should be noted that Escalante's north of the present Arizona Highway 264. to are then east southeast given in reverse order. To have camp, directions, followed the diary directions explicitly would -195- have placed their route directly |
