The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 35, July 1931 - April, 1932 Page: 313
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A Log of the Texas-California Cattle Trail, 1854
Grass is good, plenty of mezquit wood, water scarce, none at
all in a dry time.
Encamped on good level ground, and had a comfortable time;
of it except the dread of an attack from Indians.
We are now about seven or eight miles from San Goubel.
18th Monday. Fine weather, not so warm as a few days
previous.
Marched three hours and made within one mile of San Goubel.
The spire of the church and town Watch Tower, can be seen from
our camp; thay appear to have had more respect for rules of
architecture, and more care for the ravages of time - being built
of fine brick - than the towns lately passed through.
The river Santa Cruz sinks into the sand between Tabac and
near this place.
This town of San Goubel6 possesses one of the handsomest
churches of any on the rout; it is built of fire brick and in good
preservation. It shows two octagonal towers in front, a dome in
the rear, the face is handsomely ornamented with mouldings, and
p[r]oper unequalities in the ground plan; standing in front, to
the left is a small building p [r]obably used as a p [r]ivate chapel.
From the appearance I should judge that when built, it was in-
tended as a residence as well as a church; the natives, who are
Pemos Indians, number about one hundred; live in small round
huts built of wheat straw, with an opening, one third the size of
a small door, and used for that purpose; the natives dress pretty
much as other Indians - one half the body naked - some were
engaged in making red earthen ware, and used the ox-chip for
baking. Their principle food is wheat and is ground by some
preperation, p [r]obably like Indian corn. Nothing could induce
me to live in this country, and the Jesuits must have seen far,
far into the future time when they established these Missions
through this wild country; will its history every be written? if
"This village, nine miles from Tucson, could have been no other than
the old mission of San Javier del Bac. The Anglican pronunciation of
San Javier may have suggested "San Goubel." John Russell Bartlett,
while engaged in the boundary survey in 1852, described the village as
"truly a miserable place, consisting of from eighty to one hundred huts
or wigwams, made of mud or straw, the sole occupants of which are
Pimo Indians. . . . In the midst of these hovels stands the largest
and most beautiful church in the State -of Sonora." Bartlett, as cited
in note 30, II, 298.313
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