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173 Chapter 1 A RIVER UNIQUE 1 Length is from Handbook ofTexas Online (hereafter Handbook Online), http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online, entry for “Devils River” (accessed 15 November 2005). 2 John E. Hart journal, entry for 8 November 1861,Texas Confederate Museum (hereafter TCM) Collection, Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library (hereafter, Haley Library), Midland, Texas. 3 Robert Eccleston, Overland to California on the SouthwesternTrail,1849 (Berkeley and LosAngeles: University of California Press, 1950), 62. 4 J. D. B. Stillman, Wanderings in the Southwest in 1855 (Spokane,Washington:TheArthur H. Clark Company, 1990), 125. 5 W.W. Heartsill, Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army (Jackson, Tennessee: McCowat-Mercer Press, facsimile edition, 1953, originally published 1876), 48. 6 San Angelo Standard (hereafter, SA St), 11August 1894. 7 This study of the Devils’ geography is based on: United States Department of the Interior U.S.-Mexico Border Field Coordinating Committee,“Water-resources Issues in the Rio Grande–Rio Conchos toAmistad Reservoir Subarea Fact Sheet,” http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/ FCC/pubs/Fact_sheets/DOI_US-MX_Border_FCC_Fact_sheet_3.pdf (accessed 27 January 2009); Handbook Online, entries for “Devils River” (accessed 15 November 2005),“Dry Devils River (Schleicher County)” (accessed 15 November 2005),“Granger Draw” (accessed 15 November 2005),“Buckhorn Draw” (accessed 20 November 2005),“Johnson Draw” (accessed 15 November 2005),“Dry Devils River (Edwards County)” (accessed 15 November 2005);“Big Satan Creek” (accessed 15 November 2005), and “Dead Mans Creek” (accessed 15 November 2005). Distances between the Devils and Pecos, and the relief figure for the Devils, are from Google Earth, a resource I consulted frequently in producing this work. 8 Nature Conservancy website, http://www.nature.org/success/devilsriver/html (accessed 17 February 2008);“Tamaulipan Mezquital,” http://www.worldwildlife.org/ wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/na/na1312_full.html (accessed 27 January 2009); John R. Roberts and James P. Nash, University ofTexas Bulletin No.1803: The Geology of ValVerde County (Austin: University ofTexas, 10 January 1918), 8; Lawrence Clayton, Contemporary Ranches ofTexas (Austin: University ofTexas Press, 2001), 128; and 1990-91 Texas Almanac (Dallas: Dallas Morning News,1989), 167, 250, 258. 9 Lewis Burt Lesley, editor, Uncle Sam’s Camels:The Journal of May Humphreys Stacey Supplemented by the Report of Edward Fitzgerald Beale (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1929), 149-150. 10 Eccleston, Overland, 75. 11 Stillman, Wanderings, 174. 12 Dallas Morning News (hereafter DMN), 31 January 1898. 13 Thomas U.Taylor, TheWater Powers ofTexas (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904), 19-20. 14 Jerry E. Mueller, Restless River (El Paso:TexasWestern Press, 1975), 92. NOTES 174 NOTES Chapter 2 SPANISH ATTEMPTS AT CONQUEST 1 J.W.Williams, OldTexasTrails (Burnet,Texas: Eakin Press, 1979), 18-19. 2 Narrative of Cabeza deVaca in Herbert Eugene Bolton, ed., Spanish Exploration in the Southwest (repr., NewYork: Barnes and Noble, 1952), 96. 3 Ibid., 98-99. 4 Albert H. Schroeder and Dan S. Matson, A Colony on the Move:Gaspar Castaño de Sosa’s Journal 1590-1591 (n.p.:The School ofAmerican Research, 1965), 25-35, 38-51; and Carlos E. Castañeda, Our Catholic Heritage inTexas 1519-1936Vol.1: The Mission Era:The Finding ofTexas 1519-1693 (Austin:Von Boeckmann-Jones Company, 1936), 181-183. 5 Castañeda, Catholic HeritageVol.1, 222, 227-230; and Francis Borgia Steck, Forerunners of Captain De Leon’s Expedition toTexas,1670-1675 (n.p.: Preliminary Studies of theTexas Catholic Society, n.d., reprint from Southwestern Historical Quarterly (hereafter, SHQ) 36, No. 1, July 1932), 9, 12-16. 6 Steck, Forerunners, 24-29. 7 Handbook Online, entry for “La Salle, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de” (accessed 28 January 2009). 8 Mendoza’s journal in Herbert Eugene Bolton, ed., Spanish Exploration in the Southwest (NewYork: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916), 330-332, 340-343;Victor J. Smith,“The Route of Juan Dominguez de Mendoza through the Big Bend in 1684,” WestTexas Historical and Scientific Society, No. 2 (1928), 64; Castañeda, Catholic HeritageVol.1, 215; and Carlos E. Castañeda, Our Catholic Heritage inTexas 1519-1936Vol.2: The Mission Era: TheWinning ofTexas 1693-1731 (Austin:Von Boeckmann-Jones Company, 1936), 321-322. 9 RosemaryWhitehead Jones, ed., La Hacienda (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976), 412. 10 Diario y derrotero, q nros. Dn. Blas de la Garza Falcon . . . y Dn. Joseph Anto. Eca y Musquiz . . . inTestimonio de la fundacion . . . A.G.I.,Audiencia de Mexico, 61-2-18 (Coahuila, 17331738 ), 117-132, Center forAmerican History,The University ofTexas at Austin, and Carlos E. Castañeda, Our Catholic Heritage inTexas 1519-1936Vol.3: The Mission Era...

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