tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65149202735188882122024-02-20T23:34:18.257-07:00The Old Spanish Trail Documentation ProjectRachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-61150497549045710282015-12-07T17:31:00.000-07:002015-12-07T17:32:05.920-07:00CO - Wells Gulch: Significance
By Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz
The Wells Gulch landscape is in many
ways, (line, form and color) as it appeared when “Mexicano” and “Americano”
entrepreneurs were actively trading hides and durable goods with the Utes and
bringing horses and mules back from California for use in the international
trade between the US and Mexico. Though
firsthand accounts specific to Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-84201215889644870162015-12-07T17:29:00.000-07:002015-12-07T17:29:46.919-07:00CO - Wells Gulch: Developmental history/additional historic context
By Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz
Period of time when it is known or
projected to have been occupied or used.
The
Wells Gulch Old Spanish Trail segment is inextricably tied to the development
of the American fur trade with the Ute Indians in the first quarter of the 19th
Century. While there is a vast
collection of historical literature on the fur business in St.
Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-67928577231817909682015-12-07T17:28:00.000-07:002015-12-07T17:30:42.284-07:00CO - Wells Gulch: Narrative and Environmental Setting
By Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz
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A little bit about everything you ever wanted to know on the subject is available here at Wikipedia.Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-41623855955897763322012-05-15T14:08:00.001-06:002012-05-15T14:08:21.971-06:00Mule Trains!Thanks to OST researcher Bob Leonard, we now know what a pack mule train of the Hispanic era might look like. This one was in Cuba.
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By Mark Henderson and edited by Rachel Preston Prinz
Adler, Douglas D. and Karl F. Brooks (2007). A history of Washington County: From Isolation to Destination.
Second Edition. Springdale UT:
Zion Natural
History Association.
Armijo, Antonio (1830). ‘Diario que formo Antonio Armijo para
el Descubimiento del Camino para el punto de las Californias de Territorioo del N. México.’ Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-64809228000658430202012-04-14T11:33:00.001-06:002012-04-27T14:37:18.661-06:00UT: Holt Canyon: Developmental history/additional historic context
By Mark Henderson and edited by Rachel Preston Prinz
Joseph Walker, Chief Walker and the
Uintah connection.
As Jackson and Spence (1970:694) note, the
detail of Frémont’s narrative deteriorates after leaving Mountain Meadows. This is at the same time that Joseph Walker
joins Frémont, apparently by chance, probably at Pinto Creek (Jackson and
Spence 1970:694) and Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-41922724418805033562012-04-14T11:33:00.000-06:002012-04-27T14:38:01.540-06:00UT - Holt Canyon: Significance
By Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz
After leaving
the New Mexico frontier community of Abiquiu, arriving at Las Vegas de Santa
Clara, or Mountain Meadows, was possibly the most important milestone after
crossing the Colorado River near modern Green River, Utah. The Las Vegas de Santa Clara was important
to merchants on the Spanish Trail because it marked the last Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-27683276204567711862012-04-14T11:23:00.000-06:002012-04-27T14:38:26.088-06:00UT - Holt Canyon: Narrative
By Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz
Summary
The seventeen mile Old Spanish Trail
landscape from the mouth of Pinto Creek at Newcastle, Utah to the southernmost
extent of Mountain Meadows includes the divide between the interior draining
Great Basin and the Colorado River drainage to the Pacific, which John C.
Frémont (1845:270) and later observers of the “Rim of the Basin”&Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-63563287085336701802012-04-13T11:14:00.000-06:002012-04-27T14:38:48.396-06:00NV - Mormon Mesa: Major Bibliographical References
Auerbach, Herbert S.
1941 Old
Trails, Old Forts, Old Trappers and Traders. Utah Historical Quarterly Volume 9, Numbers 1 & 2, pages 13-
63.
Baxter, John O.
&Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-35682610551390930982012-04-13T11:12:00.000-06:002012-04-13T11:12:00.091-06:00NV - Mormon Mesa: Developmental history/additional historic context
By Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz
Historical Descriptions
I. Precursors to 1829
Jedediah Smith October 1826 (Brooks 1977:56-71) and July 1827
(Sullivan 1992:28-29)
Jedediah Smith made two trips
down the Virgin River drainage, first in October 1826 with 18 men and 28 horses
(Brooks 1977:37-39) and then returned in July of 1827 (Sullivan 1992:27-28). In both instances, Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-58571314005720602022012-04-13T11:09:00.000-06:002012-04-13T11:09:00.161-06:00NV - Mormon Mesa: Significance
By Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz
The Mormon Mesa trail segment of the
Old Spanish Trail is representative of the following historic contexts as
defined in the Multiple Property Documentation Form Old Spanish Trail AD
1821-1848 under these areas of significance: commerce, economics, exploration/settlement,
social history, and transportation.
The major historical support Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-9785305224270458282012-04-13T11:08:00.000-06:002012-04-13T11:08:01.080-06:00NV - Mormon Mesa: Narrative
By Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz
Summary
Paragraph
The Mormon Mesa trail site of the Main
Branch of the Old Spanish Trail is a site distinguished by an unaltered
landscape described and mapped by John C. Frémont in spring of 1844 as he
travelled the “Spanish Trail” through Nevada, during the 1829-1848 period of
significance of the Old Spanish Trail. The proposed canyon Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-84531972571476811432012-04-13T08:17:00.003-06:002012-04-13T08:17:41.603-06:00CA: Emigrant Pass: Bibliographical References<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-39334974993278433472012-04-12T10:57:00.000-06:002012-04-27T14:39:22.766-06:00NM - Cañada de Apodaca: Major Bibliographical References
Adams,
Eleanor B. and Fray Angelico Chavez (1975).
The Missions of New Mexico,
1776. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico
Press.
Adler,
Michael A. and Herbert W. Dick (1999).
Picuris Pueblo through Time: Eight Centuries of Change at a Northern Rio
Grande Pueblo. Dallas: William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
Anderson,
Allen (1864 [Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-24706344897547395252012-04-12T10:55:00.000-06:002012-04-27T14:39:45.503-06:00NM - Cañada de Apodaca: Developmental history/additional historic context
By Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz
Historic
Narrative specific to the “Apodaca Trail”
The “Apodaca
Trail” on the Cañada de Apodaca drainage has been documented as part of the “North
Branch” of the Old Spanish National Historic Trail (Kessler, 1998; Nelson,
2003; Colville, 1996; Hafen & Hafen, 1993). The only known historical
accounts which specifically document the trail Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-3570367535398672782012-04-12T10:51:00.000-06:002012-04-12T10:51:00.714-06:00NM - Cañada de Apodaca: Significance
By Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz
National
Register Criteria
Criterion A. Property is associated
with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of
our history;
The Cañada de Apodaca is documented to
be the primary link between the northeastern Mexican frontier portal settlement
of Taos, the core weaving settlements in the Española Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-6954490472700043112012-04-12T10:41:00.000-06:002012-04-27T14:40:59.664-06:00NM - Cañada de Apodaca: Narrative
By Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz
Summary
The Cañada de Apodaca is a distinct topographic and
geographic segment of the historic commercial goods pack trail and livestock
driveway that connected settlements and Spanish Colonial towns in the Espanola
Valley to the agrarian “plazuelas” in the Taos Valley and on to markets in “Nuevo
Mexico” and beyond, during the Spanish Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-69034860475482720012012-04-11T10:35:00.000-06:002012-04-11T10:35:00.800-06:00CO - Wells Gulch: Major Bibliographical References
Beckwith, E. G. (1855). Report of the Exploration of a
Route for the Pacific Railroad, Near the 38th and 39th
Parallels of Latitude, from the Mouth of the Kansas to Sevier River, in the
Great Basin. 33rd Congress, 1st Session, House of
Representatives Executive Document No 129. Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson,
Printer.
Boyle,
Susan Calafate. (1994). Comerciantes,
Arrieros, Y Peones:Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-44164006987596881872012-04-10T09:55:00.000-06:002012-04-10T09:55:00.412-06:00CA - Emigrant Pass Route Segment: Significance
By Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz
The Emigrant Pass route segment
constitutes a verifiable landscape through which a mule and horse pack trail
(later known as the “Spanish Trail”) passed and can be historically linked with
the trade in commercial products between the Mexican Territories of Alta, California
and Nuevo Mexico in the period of 1829-1848.
This conclusion Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-64904862464352901152012-04-10T09:37:00.000-06:002012-04-10T09:37:00.915-06:00CA - Emigrant Pass Route Segment: Narrative
By Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz
Summary
The Emigrant
Pass Old Spanish Trail segment is a well-established “choke” or pinch point in
a high mountain gap in the Nopah range, nearly equidistant between Stump
(formerly Escarbado) Springs to the east and Resting (formerly Archilette or Hernandez) Springs to the west -
two well established water sources and “camp sites” (or “Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-16469769589681586892012-04-10T09:28:00.000-06:002012-04-10T09:28:00.980-06:00CA - Emigrant Pass Route Segment: Developmental history/additional historic context
By Mark Henderson and Rachel Preston Prinz
Historical Descriptions
Aboriginal
Trails, Trade and Commerce (horse Trails) Trade
Anthropologist David Earle (2005) has
done extensive research on the aboriginal occupants and associated exchange
systems in the Mojave River Basin.
Ethnohistoric research on Southern Paiute occupants in the Amargosa
Valley has been sparse compared to Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-34914557506994512182012-04-09T14:58:00.000-06:002012-04-27T14:41:20.194-06:00AZ - Big Bend of the Virgin River: Major Bibliographical References
Alder, Douglas D. and Karl F. Brooks (2007). A history of Washington County: From Isolation to Destination.
Second Edition. Springdale UT:
Zion Natural
History Association.
Armijo, Antonio (1830).
‘Diario que formo Antonio Armijo para el Descubimiento del Camino para el punto
de las Californias de Territorioo del N. México.’ Registo Official del Gobierno de los Estados
Unidos Mexicanos Año Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514920273518888212.post-19855506223959321312012-04-09T12:53:00.000-06:002012-04-09T12:53:00.100-06:00AZ - Big Bend of the Virgin River: Developmental history/additional historic context
By Mark Henderson, edited by Rachel Preston Prinz
The demise of Baptiste Tabeau. The
Frémont (1845:268-269) account is the only detailed description of the nature
of the trail in the Virgin River between Halfway Wash and Beaver Dam from the
period of significance:
For
several days we continued our journey up the river, the bottoms of which were
thickly overgrown with various kinds Rachel Prestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047414948360387844noreply@blogger.com