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Coronado: From the Rio Grande to the Concho
a canyon at the edge of the plains.62 The canyon must have been
deep with precipitous walls, for the advance party had to send
guides back to Coronado's principal army to help it find the way.
At this camp site, after a day or more of rest, the Spaniards suf-
fered great damage from a severe hailstorm. Tents were knocked
down, dishes were broken, and nearly all of the horses broke
loose from their hitching places and would have run away except
that the walls of the canyon prevented.63 It was with great diffi-
culty that some of the horses were brought down from the sides
of the canyon. Thus the evidence mounts toward the conclusion
that this first ravine visited by the Spaniards was a deep cut at the
east edge of the Plains. Probably it was neither Yellowhouse Can-
yon nor Blanco Canyon.64 Horses in wild flight could have escaped
from either. Canyons immediately to the north of these-Quitaque,
Los Linguish (Los Lingos), and Tule-have high steep walls that
most likely would have stopped the horses in their efforts to
escape."
Up to this point the Spaniards had traveled some twenty-six*"
days (possibly it was only twenty-five days) in their journey from
the Rio Grande. Thus of the thirty-seven days consumed in the
whole outgoing journey, only eleven days (or possibly twelve)
remained. How far could the Spaniards have traveled in eleven
days? The answer is 195 miles-that is at the same rate as that
established for the entire thirty-seven days. Then the question
remains: "How far is it from Quitaque (or Los Lingos) Canyon
to a point ten miles down the Concho from Sterling City?" By
straight-line map-measurement, the distance is just short of 18o
62Ibid., 505.
s6albid., 506.
e4Edward McMillan to J. W. Williams, March io, 1959. It was McMillan's opin-
ion, after an investigation, that horses could have escaped from Blanco Canyon.
The writer has crossed both Blanco and Yellowhouse canyons in a number of places
and found no place in either canyon from which a frightened horse might not
have escaped.
6aIn company with Kenneth F. Neighbours of Midwestern University, the writer
visited Quitaque Canyon on March 21, 1959. Interviews with Raymond Upton
of South Plains and Charles E. (Dock) Wallace of Silverton, Texas, on the same
date made it quite clear that all three of these canyons were deep, with quite
abrupt walls-and that each has an abundant supply of permanent water.
;*See footnote 9.211
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