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Map of TOPOGL. RECONE. OF A PART OF NORTHWESTERN TEXAS 1859-60 (WM. ECHOLS, TOPOG. ENG.)
CAMELS & CARTOGRAPHY: LT. ECHOLS in the TEXAS BIG BEND, 1859 - 1860, (from the compiled
book by Lewis Buttery)
see comments below map
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Red printed tpye is added in this map, because this photocopy
of the map is not clear. If you'd like a copy without the red enhanceing, we can email you
a copy.
La Hita is the same site as the later Coltrin's Camp (see the 1902
Terlingua District map), but before the time of Coltrin's Camp. This site was known for very good water,
as noted in the diary, and there are Indian tinajas and mortars in this area, nearby. Presently there are
the remains of a small rock ruin, but since it is on private property, it is not public accessible. Echols
refers to this site as a known place of good water, but was dry when they approached it.
San Carlos Trail, (barely visible in the map, which crosses Lates Lengua,
and is parallel to what is known today as Reed Plateau, where La Hita is shown
in Echols' map), is the same general route that would become the contemporary Farm Road 170, going east -
west to the San Carlos Crossing, what became known as the Comanche Crossing (at
the Rio Grande, Lajitas).
Inaccesible Tank: No one has yet published the location of this inaccesible
tank. Echols refers to it as 1000 feet down into a canyon that receives no sun, and inaccesible to their camels
and mules, and 30 feet in diameter.
Siera Corazon: Echols may have misspelled Siera Carmen
For a full version (also photocopied), and hand written diary of Echol's camel expedition into the hot summer
July desert, contact: Lewis Buttery, 301 S. Arnold St., Lampassas, Texas 76550.
Mr. Buttery self published Echols' hand written diary, and the typed version, all of Echol's hand drawn maps of the
trip, and much more for $35. (He copied the Echols Map from the original at West Point, and copied the hand
written diary from the original which is in Echols' descendants' collection.)
There is a site on the web that has Echols' diary published, under Texas Bob.com. ( http://www.texasbob.com/texdoc4f.html ) However, when the hand written diary is compared to the Army's document that was typed, there ocurred
some typo errors in the spelling of some of the names, (such as Chiros for Chisos). Hence the importance
of seeing the original hand written copy also.
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