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Show RESEARCH METHODS it is very was easi Iy studied since at other officials and W. Ernest Ortego Highway National Monument were helpful in checking their register for the Local inquiry at San Rafael the: Dominguez-Escalante Expedition. Some of our informants were information EI de about Gallo. Ojo provided located in an establishment known as the "Dominguez Bar" whose proprietor seemed unaware that another by his name had passed that way 199 years ago. The close to EI Morro names of trail from Zuni to San Rafael 53. New Mexico Inquiry at San Rafael and Grants failed to reveal any accurate infor mation about old trail crossings of the Malpais. Leandro Garcia of Grants, and the Chamber of Commerce there as wei I as the district office of the Cibola National Forest, supplied useful information. A modern edition of the Whipple Survey has been edited by Grant Foreman, Pathfinder in the South west, the Itinerary of Lieutenant E. W. Whipple During His Explorations for a Rai I road Route 1853 and 1854 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941). See his diary entry for November 16, 1853 (Some 77 years after Escalante) for his cross i ng of the III ava stream." Ba I dw i n Mo I I hausen, Diary of a Jour ••• ney from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific (London, 1858. Re print Corporation, New York and London, 1969) has a fuller account. See his Chapter 4. The atlas sheets of the Wheeler Survey, known as the U.S. Geographical Surveys West of the lOath Meridian, formally are invaluable for a study of old trai Is and roads. printed by ••• Johnson The Malpais area has been completely mapped by the U.S. Geological Sur vy. One unimproved road is shown crossing the lava directly east of San Rafael. Another along a telephone I ine partially crosses the lava about five miles south of San Rafael. We would surmise that the old trail crossing would have been somewhere between these two, a position that would agree with the route shown on the Wheeler map. The W.L. route from Zuni to San Rafael, Grants, Gregory Crampton on July 10, Rusho and C. The route from E. Mi Iler on Apri I McCartys 27, 1974. to Acoma was and 1975. examined McCartys by W.L. was studied by Rusho and David Maps consulted: AMS, Gallup, Albuquerque, Socorro; USGS quads Grants, Rafael, Los Pi lares, Grants SE, McCartys, Crow Point, Acoma Pueblo; Quadrangle maps published by the New Mexico State Highway Department (here inafter cited NMHD, fol lowed by the sheet number) sheets 37, 38, 39, 52. San December 17-19 (No travel) December 20 On the 20th we left Acoma for the mission of EI San Jose de la Laguna, where we arrived after travel four leagues north. four Today -204- leagues. Senor ing |
