The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska Page: 174 of 288
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THE JOURNEY OF CORONADO
ewes and more than 1,500 friendly Indians
and servants, in traveling over those plains,
would leave no more trace where they had
passed than if nothing had been there--
nothing--so that it was necessary to make
piles of bones and cow dung now and then,
so that the rear guard could follow the army.
The grass never failed to become erect after
it had been trodden down, and, although it
was short, it was as fresh and straight as be-
fore.
Another thing was a heap of cow bones,
a crossbow shot long, or a very little less,
almost twice a man's height in places, and
some 18 feet or more wide, which was found
on the edge of a salt lake in the southern
part, and this in a region where there are no
people who could have made it. The only
explanation of this which could be suggested
was that the waves which the north winds
must make in the lake had piled up the
bones of the cattle which had died in the
lake, when the old and weak ones who went
into the water were unable to get out. The
noticeable thing is the number of cattle that
would be necessary to make such a pile of
bones.
Now that I wish to describe the appear-
ance of the bulls, it is to be noticed first that
there was not one of the horses that did not
take flight when he saw them first, for they
have a narrow, short face, the brow two
palms across from eye to eye, the eyes stick-
ing out at the side, so that, when they are
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Compilation of translated texts describing the explorations of Coronado and his companions as they traveled in Central American and parts of present-day United States, with some supplementary historical notes for context.
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Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952. The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth3161/m1/174/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .