54 EXPLORATIONS FROM A. D. 1843 To A. p. 1852. 
back, and, continuing down the Rio Grande to Albuquerque, crossed the river. Striking over 
to the Puerco, they followed its valley to the Rio San José, and up that stream to the Pueblo 
Moquino, visiting also the pueblos of Laguna and Acoma, and the ruins of a deserted pueblo 
on the Rito, a branch of San José river. From this place they retraced their steps to Albu- 
querque, travelled down the east side of the Rio Grande as far as Peralta, and returned to 
Padillas. 
From Padillas they travelled east up the “ Cafion Infierno," through the Sierra Blanca, visited 
the towns of Chilili, Tegique, Torreon, Manzana, and Quarra, and returned by way of the ruins 
of Abo, to the Rio Grande, which they struck at * Casa Colorado." From here they proceeded 
down the river as far as the ruins of Valverde, at the northern end of the *Jornada del Mu- 
erto.” At this place they crossed the river and returned to Albuquerque, passing through 
Saucilla, Las Lunas, Padillas, &c. From Albuquerque they proceeded up the San Antonio 
cafion to its head in the Sandia mountains; thence northward to the mine and town of Tuerto, 
and thence around the base of the Gold mountains to Santa Fé. 
Leaving Santa Fé on the 28th December, Lieutenant Abert proceeded down the Pecos to San 
Miguel, and thence, by way of Las Vegas, over the same route pursued by Lieutenant Emory 
when entering New Mexico, to Bent’s Fort, on the Arkansas. Thence he followed the usually 
travelled route down the Arkansas, from Santa Fé to Fort Leavenworth, which point he reached 
on March 1, 1847. 
The survey of the Cimmaron route is not specially mentioned in either Major Emory's or 
Lieutenant Abert’s report, and I give here an extract from a letter which I received from Lieu- 
tenant Peck, dated October 9, 1854, in relation to it: “The survey of the Cimmaron route was 
made by me on my return from Santa Fe, in the month of April, 1847. It is nothing but a re- 
connaissance, and was made in the same manner that all other reconnaissances have been made 
in that country, except that I had no means of establishing astronomical positions. "The coun- 
try is eminently favorable to a compass line, and I think it may give a fair idea of the route. 
* * * * The original map on which the plat first appeared is Emory’s map of General 
Kearny’s route to the Pacific. * * * * No report was made of the route, for the reason 
that I made the p on my own —Ü and I did not consider it of sufficient importance 
to comment upon." 
‘From the Canadian to the Arkansas, the may is very nearly level, with scarce a stick of 
timber, immense quantities of sand, and very little water.” 
ROUTE OF COLONEL P. ST. G. COOKE, 1846-47. 
This officer’s report forms a part of House Executive Document No. 41, Ist session 30th 
Congress, and is accompanied by a map of his route, on a scale of 12 miles to an inch; = 
route is also represented on Emory’s map. 
lonel Cooke was sent by General Kearny from La Joya to Santa Fé, to — command of 
the “Mormon battalion,” en route for California. Proceeding to that place, he assumed com- 
mand, and, on the 19th October, 1846, led the battalion, consisting of about four hundred men, 
each company having three mule wagons, down the Rio Grande to a point about three or four 
miles above San Diego on that river. Thence he travelled southwest to Ojo de Vaca, crossing 
there the road from the Copper Mines to the Yanos, Thence, turning more south, he crossed 
the Sierra de los Animos one mile from the Guadalupe Pass, and, passing by the rancho de San 
Bernardino, on the head of the Yaqui river, struck the San Pedro river. He travelled this 
