Cerro Tucumcari. — Marcou. 105 
■drawing or description which can he used to identify the 
Cerro. It was in 1839, that Gregg explored this very old Mex- 
ican road. 
1841-46. — The celebrated Texan Santa Fe Expedition, from 
Austin, May, 1841. so vividly described in two volumes by the 
humorous writer, Geo. Wilkins Kendall. New York. 1846, 
passed through the Angosturas, without signalizing in any 
way the Tucumcari, in the text or on the map. 
1845-46. — Report of an expedition led by Lieut. J.W.Abert, 
on the Upper Arkansas and through tin- country of the Com- 
manche Indians, in thefalloftht year 1845. Washington, 29th 
( cngress, 1st Session, Senate. June, 1846. In the text nothing is 
said about Tucumcari. The expedition followed down the left 
side of the ( anadian river, and did not come near the ( frro Tu- 
cumcari, distant 25 or 30 miles far away south. But on the 
map accompanying the report, Lieut. Abert and his associate, 
Lieut. V. G. Peck, U. S. Topographical Engineers, have writ- 
ten Cerro Tucumcari, on a place entirely isolated, merely as a 
guess, and from what they had learned from the New-Mexican 
traders and the Commanches and Kioways Indians. It was 
the first time that the name had been inscribed on a map. 
1849-50. — Route from Fort Smith to Santo Ft . A Report 
o nit Map of Lieut. J. II . Simpson, of the route from Fort 
Smith to Santa Fe ; also o report on tin some snt>j;<-t from 
Capt. /.'. Ii. Marcy, 5th Infantry. Washington, 31st Congress, 
1st Session. House of Representatives, Ex. Doc. No 45. 
In the text Lieut. Simpson speaks <d' the Cerro des Tin-iim- 
cari or Tucumcari hill and Tucumcari creek, at pp. 13. Hand 
L7, and gives a description of one of the hills, seven miles 
north of Camp 57, 18th June, 1S49. Farther on, at p. 44, 
(apt. Marcy, June 18th, says: "Our encampment is upon a 
small creek directly between two mountains, called by the 
Commanches the Big and Little Tucumcari. The larger one 
is about three miles to the south of our road, and some eight 
miles in diameter at the base. The smaller one is about eight 
miles north of the road, two miles in diameter and 750 feet high." 
Two maps accompany tins book, one by Lieut. Simpson, 
in four sheets, entitled: Map of route pursued by the U.S. 
troops from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Santa Fe, Wew Mexico, 
via south side of Canadian river, in fh> year ls.' t i); marked 
