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A Log of the Texas-California Cattle Trail, 1854
week; riding on a mule, with her easy swinging gate make [s] me
verry drowsey, so that I can with difficulty keep my eyes open and
am compelled to get a Mexican to ride her and I get in the am-
bulance. The scenery we have been passing through for the last
few days has been surpassingly beautifull. I do not know to what
range of mountains the small pyramid [ ?] like hills we pass every
day belong. They are generally thrust up out of a large plane, and
a minature simile is the blisters on a piece of pastry too hastely
baked. At the foot of one of these hills is the Geone [Leona]
Station.11 There are about 150 men, parts of companies, and all
the necessary houses, stables &c, the next station we pass is the Las
Morass12 and is beautifully situated on one of the clearest streams
of water I have ever seen. We had a fine bath in cool waters. The
ballance of the streams I have seen in this part of the state seem
to be of a volcanic nature and are warm but the water when cooled
is verry good, and resembles the Missippi water.
12 Monday, I visited the Las Morass and found two young
men of my acquaintance from San Antonio. The companies have
two verry good gardens there, and the Gentleman - knowing how
travelers on the plains suffer for want of vegetables - gave us some
Cucumbers, beets, Parsnips, Lettuce, Parsley, &c. There were
some Lipan Indians in camp begging for carna and seemed to be
verry friendly. Their business at the station was to have a talk
with some of the other tribes, to arrange some little matters of
difference. Thay are miserably poor and only the shadow of their
former g[r]eatness, but still endeavor to keep up appearances by
painting their faces various colours. Both sexes dress so much
alike that without one is accustomed to them, . .. it is diffi-
cult to distinguish the male from the female. We left camp about
the usual time, travelled about ten miles - arrived at the Pedro
Pinto, a verry pretty little stream, our cattle were somewhat rest-
less during the night and came verry near stompeding twice.
13 Tuesday we came 8 miles to the Socata (muddy). The men
"This must have been Fort Inge, some eighty-five miles west of San
Antonio, on the Leona, in Uvalde County. See thesis by Arrie Barrett,
"Federal Military Posts in Texas, 1846-1861," p. 137, University of Texas,
and Thomas H. S. Hamersly, Complete Regular Army Register of the
United States for One Hundred Years, Washington, 1880, part II, 138.
'The post upon Las Moras Creek became Fort Clark. It was established
June 20, 1852, as protection against the raids of Mexican and Indian bands
upon the southwest frontier, as well as to give assurance to emigrants
upon the California trail. Hamersley, as cited in note 11, part II, 128.213
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