184 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVA'nONS AND REMINISCENCES, 



San Geronimo, near the Gallagher 

 cattle ranch and the farm of Mr. 

 Edmund Henderson, a near re- 

 lative of the writer, the steep pre- 

 cipices containing large excava- 

 tions, which are overgrown with 

 mountain sage and moss, fern and 

 vines. This wild scenery is very- 

 romantic and imposing, and ex- 

 tends for many miles intersected 

 with forest vegetation, sparkling 

 springs, surrounded with forest 

 vegetation, and rivulets, where 

 deer, and in olden times bear and 



are met with in more or less pro- 

 fusion. This country is an Eden 

 for botanists, entomologists, and 

 the lover of Nature in general to 

 ramble around and study insect 

 life as well as the rare mountain 

 and forest flora, and there is no 

 end of exceedingly attractive na- 

 ture objects and landscapes for 

 the camarist. 



The vales and mountain ranges 

 and forests interchange as one 

 travels along the Bandera Road 

 up to the famous Hoffman and 



Some of the San Geronimo Regions — the Haunts of the Armadillo, Etc. 



buffalo and other wild forest ani- 

 mals abounded unmolested and 

 in profusion; and where, among a 

 sea of brilliant wild prairie flow- 

 ers, rare butterflies and other in- 

 sects abound, or, in the forest, 

 squirrels, quail, rabbits and other 

 small game are found, as well as 

 along the deep rock precipices, 

 the cliff swallows with myriads 

 of the lively swallows, the melo- 

 dious "whip-poor-will" and other 

 rare night ■ birds and their nests 



the Gallagher Ranches at San 

 Geronimo; and the scenery is 

 grand all along, as shown by some 

 of the views herein of a small 

 portion of that country, and it 

 vividly depicts some of the en- 

 vironments encountered there. 

 Large cultivated fields and pic- 

 turesque Mexican dwellings are 

 dispersed along this hilly route 

 along the Bandera Road, usually 

 situated among shade trees and 

 shrubbery; and hundreds of goats 



