tABLE OF DISTANCES. 



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men to put off their meanest horses to these 



deluded travellers for the most enormous 

 prices. 



On the 11th of May we arrived at Inde- 

 pendence, after a propitious journey of only 

 thirty-eight days.* We found the town in a 

 thriving condition, although it had come very 

 near being laid waste a few years before by 

 the Mormons, who had originally selected this 

 section of the country for the site of their 

 New Jerusalem, In this they certainly dis- 

 played far more taste and good sense than 

 they are generally supposed to be endowed 



_ • Having crossed the Prairies between Independence and Santa Fe 

 six times, I can now present a table of the most notable camping 

 sites, and their respective intermediate distances, with approximate 

 accuracy — which may prove acceptable to some future tmvellers. 

 The whole distance has been variously estimated at from 750 to 

 800 miles, yet I feel confident that the aggregate here presented is 

 very nearly the true distance. 



From Independence to 

 Round Grove, 

 Narrows, 



110- mile Creek, 



Bridge Cr. , 



Big John Spring, 



(crossing sev'l Crs.) 

 Council Grove, 

 Diamond Spring, 

 Lost Spring, 

 Cottonwood Cr., 

 Turkey Cr., 



-Little Arkansas, 

 Cow Creek, 



Arkansas River, 



Wakut Cr.{up Ark. r.] 

 Ash Creek, 



Pawnee Fork, 



Coon Creek, 



Caches, 



Ford of Arkansas, 



27 



50 



Sand Cr. (Icav. Ark. r,) 

 Cimarron r.(Lower sp.) 8 

 Middle spr. (up Cim. r.) 36 

 Willow Bar, 26 



Upper Spring, 18 



Cold spr. (leav.Cim. r.) 5 

 M'Nees'sCr., 25 



Rabbit-ear Cr., ; 20 



Round Mound, I 8 



Rock Creek, J 8 



Point of Rocks, \19 



Rio Colorado, 20 



Ocate, 6 



Santa Clara Spr., 21 



Rio Mora, 22 

 Rio Gallinas (Vegas), 20 



C)jo de Bemal (^r.), 17 

 San Mi^el, i 6 



Pecos village, (23 



Santa F£, 125^ 



M,.Agg 



I 



! 



442 



450 

 486 

 512 

 53d 

 535 

 560 



580 



588 



596 



615 



635 



641 



662 



684 



704 



721 



727 



750 



775 



