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A Woman's View
The Springs here or rather holes as they are more properly named,
are 6o feet wide, having a depth unknown. They have been sounded
for 6o feet without striking bottom, the water is clear, and pure, and
alive with wild duck-I wish you could see the sky here, as the sun is
setting behind the hills; it is perfectly gorgeous in colors of red, blue
and golden, certainly Italy could not boast of anything more brilliant.
Sunday Sept 6 Dry Camp
2 miles from "Dog Cafion"56
Broke Camp about half past six, and were off soon after seven. Had
a very quiet night, with the exception of the miserable Coyote that
came to our very tent door, and wakened me with their terrible howl.
However they are great cowards and the voice of the sentinal sent them
scampering away. The guard was put in front again today, with the
Ambulance back as we had to pass through quite a bad part of the In-
dian Country. We traveled therefore very slowly excepting where the
ground through some of the mountain divides was smooth enough for
the whole train to trot a little.
We expected to camp at Hackbury [sic] Springs,57 but on arriving
there the water was so low and muddy that few of the animals would
drink, and we concluded to go on a few miles and make a dry camp.
Being well provided with good water, neither men or animals will
suffer any inconvenience.
We passed several places which seemed to me just made for an at-
tack, especially as we neared the cafion, with its hills so close on either
side completely hemming us in; but we seem to have the care of a Kind
Providence, and to go on each day unmolested.
As we passed into the cafion both flowers and shrubbery became
more abundant, and the brightest purple leafed cactus was growing on
all sides.
Towards night we left the valley and once more encamped on a large
flat plain.
Limpia Cafion foot of "Big Hill"68
Monday September 7. 1874
56There is a Dog Canyon in the Dead Horse Mountains, south of Marathon, but this
location would be well to the south of the Andrewses' route. United States, Work Projects
Administration, Writers' Program, Texas: A Guide to the Lone Star State (New York,
1940), 624.
57Hackberry Springs or Hackberry Pond, eleven miles southwest of Leon Holes, was
the next stop on the stage line. Used primarily as a water stop, there was evidently no
station house there. Conkling and Conkling, The Butterfield Overland Mail, II, 21-22.
58Limpia Canyon is a wide valley between the hills of the Davis Mountains in Jeff
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