The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 63, July 1959 - April, 1960 Page: 210
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light points out the two possible locations of Coronado's camp-
for only Sod House Draw in central Lamb County and Frio Draw
near Hereford can qualify.
There is another fact which tends to confirm this two-headed
conclusion. Neither of the searching parties found the returning
scouts, but the scouts were discovered by some of the Indians
from the army who were out looking for fruit.5" Certainly the
word fruit must have meant wild plums for no other kind of
native wild fruit grows on the High Plains, and even these do not
grow except at certain favored spots. There are many wild plums
along the great sand belt that extends in an east-west direction
across central Lamb County, and none is to be found for a good
many miles on either side of this belt. The fact that this long
narrow streak of sand intersects the same ten miles in which Sod
House Draw flows toward the south adds considerable strength to
the conclusion that Coronado's camp was in that part of Lamb
County.5"
But the fact is that wild plums once grew at least in the area
of Frio Draw.60 In addition the further fact that Coronado in his
last four days of travel had moved northward6' then eastward
makes it much easier to find the route to the Hereford country
consistent with the flat terrain over which the Spaniards had just
passed than to try to find a similar approach to central Lamb
County. Perhaps the Hereford area should have the more favored
conclusion.
The next movement of Coronado's army was a continuation
of his eastward journey-this time to the edge of the High Plains.
Apparently Coronado was still trying to find Haxia, which accord-
ing to the Indians lay in the direction of the sunrise. For four
days his party pushed forward and at last reached not Haxia but
58lbid.
69Local study presents some difficulties with this conclusion. Hardly could
Coronado have reached the intersection of this sand belt with Sod House Draw
except that he had slipped through the sand belt to the west of central Lamb
County. This could have been possible in the somewhat less sandy stretches
near the Sudan-Muleshoe road or seven miles north of Sudan.
6oThomas Falconer, Letters and Notes on the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, 1841-
1842 (New York, 1930), 112.
elBureau of Ethnology Report, 504.210
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