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, on the wagon road called the Lower Emigrant Road, Military Road or San Antonio-El Paso Road in

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. It was located 38 miles north of the Lancaster Crossing of the Pecos, and 16 miles east of the first crossing of

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. It was also located a mile north of where the wagon road had its junction with a cutoff to the north to the wagon road called the

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between

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and Comanche Springs, now

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, where it joined the Lower Emigrant Road. It was later a stopping place on the route of San Antonio - El Paso Mail and the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line. Table of distances from Texas Almanac, 1859
Book, ca. 1859; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123765/ accessed November 12, 2013), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association, Denton, Texas

References

Geography of Pecos County, Texas San Antonio–El Paso Road San Antonio–San Diego Mail Line Stagecoach stops in the United States {{PecosCountyTX-geo-stub