The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke Volume 1: November 20, 1872--July 28, 1876

Appendix 9 • Table of routes to posts in southern Arizona

464 In the following table, Bourke lists two routes to posts in southern Arizona, one overland from San Francisco, and one via the Gulf of California and up through Mexico along the Colorado River. In the 1870s, the gulf route was often favored as more convenient and sometimes safer than the rugged overland route, and soldiers coming directly to Arizona from the eastern United States routinely sailed directly from Panama to the Colorado River with stopovers in Acapulco and Guaymas. Table of distances from San Francisco to miles Camp Colorado via the usual route 753 “ Gulf Cal 2459 Camp Lowell (Tucson) 1006 Fort Whipple (Prescott[)] 882 Fort Yuma usual route 731 Gulf Cal 2280 Yuaymas [sic] Mex 1700 Ehrenberg AT. usual route 711 Gulf Cal 2420 Mouth of Colorado 2130 San Diego Cal 585 Wilmington, Cal 427 Camp Mojave usual road 717 Gulf Cal 2595 Appendix 9 ✦ [Volume 1, Pages 156, 158] ✦ ✦ ✦ Table of routes to posts in southern Arizona ...