The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 43, July 1939 - April, 1940 Page: 515
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Texas Collection
and Amanda C. Kelsey. John Peter Kelsey came to South Texas
in 1840 as an employee of H. L. Kinney, founder of Corpus
Christi; made his home at Rio Grande City upon the founding
of that place in 1848; and continued there and at Camargo
until his death in 1898.
Among those present at Rio Grande City was Roberto Longoria,
son of Trist6n Longoria of La Grulla, who many years ago guided
a party of historians, including Harbert Davenport, J. Evetts
Haley and myself, to San Miguel, the scene of Captain L. H.
McNelly's Las Cuevas fight. Hard by the sandy road leading to
San Miguel stands a brick monument fifteen feet high erected in
honor of Juan Flores Salinas, killed by McNelly's Rangers in
1874 while guarding some Texas cattle on his side of the river.
The monument bears the following inscription:
Al Cuidadano
JUAN FLORES SALINAS
Que compitiendo
Muri6 por su patria
El 19 de Noviembre
1875
To Citizen
Juan Flores Salinas
who fighting
Died for his country
November 19
1875
What a pleasant adventure it was to follow McNelly's dim
tracks to Las Cuevas. We crossed the Rio Grande on a ferry,
drank Carta Blanca in Camargo's cantina, traveled a road no
better than McNelly used fifty years earlier to San .Miguel, met
an ox-drawn cart, and saw the home of Juan Flores where his
son Manuel still lived. On the way home J. Evetts Haley paused
again in Camargo to buy dutch ovens in which to cook cowboy
biscuits, and perhaps to look again into the cool interior of the
adobe cantina. The Mexicans closed the ferry promptly at five.
We caught the last boat but Haley and the young Longoria515
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