Head of Devil's River, a place on the
Devils River where it has its confluence with
Pecos Canyon at an elevation of 1722 feet, below
Beaver Lake, nineteen and a half miles above the second crossing of Devils River. Here the
San Antonio-El Paso Road left the Devils River to go northwest, 44 miles across
Johnson Draw
Johnson Draw, also formerly known as Johnsons Run and Johnson Creek, is a tributary of the Devils River in Val Verde County, Texas. It has its source in Crockett County, Texas at , 17.0 miles north northwest of Ozona, Texas.
See also
*List of ri ...
,
Government Canyon and
Howard Draw to
Howard Springs, then 30.44 miles on to
Live Oak Creek and
Fort Lancaster
Fort Lancaster is a former United States Army installation located near Sheffield, Texas. The fort was established in 1855 on the San Antonio–El Paso Road to protect migrants moving toward California through Texas. The US Army occupied Fort Lanc ...
, 3 miles further near the
Pecos River
The Pecos River ( es, Río Pecos) originates in north-central New Mexico and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande. Its headwaters are on the eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Mora County north of Pecos, New Mexico ...
.
[W. R. Livermore, Military Map of the Rio Grande Frontier, Crimmins (Martin Lalor) Map Collection, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin, 1881, from cah.utexas.edu accessed January 25, 2014]
References
Geography of Crockett County, Texas
San Antonio–El Paso Road
San Antonio–San Diego Mail Line
Stagecoach stops in the United States
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