WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 10:44 pm
Another blow your mind moment. The Spanish were exploring through here (Up the Pecos) with something like 500 soldiers, thousands of head of cattle in the early-mid 1600's. When English Jamestown was needing a 13 YO Indian to help them survive. the property I now own, because of the lay of the land, was most certainly trampled by the feet of European Cattle/ Humans 400 years ago.
I know one thing. They certainly were only passing through to someplace else more suited for cattle and humans.
No shit. It's actually pretty interesting watching the journals of Spanish explorers about every 20 years or so for 200 years pass through this country. They all have the same context per verbatim. "Country burned up- no grass for horses", "excellent grass for horses". Burned up, burned up, excellent grass, etc. Such is the life on the edge of the Chihuahuan Desert.
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