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title	:	Crossing Rio Pecos Chisholm Trail Series ; No. 16
author	:	Dearen, Patrick.
publisher	:	Texas Christian University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0875651593
print isbn13	:	9780875651590
ebook isbn13	:	9780585042398
language	:	English
subject	Fords (Stream crossings)--Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)--History, Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)--Description and travel, Pecos River Valley (N.M. and Tex.)--History.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	F392.P3D43 1996eb
ddc	:	976.4/9
subject	:	Fords (Stream crossings)--Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)--History, Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)--Description and travel, Pecos River Valley (N.M. and Tex.)--History.

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Page iii Crossing Rio Pecos Patrick Dearen Foreword by Paul Patterson CHISHOLM TRAIL SERIES * NUMBER SIXTEEN TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS FORT WORTH

Page iv Coyright 1996 Patrick Dearen Dearen, Patrick Crossing Rio Pecos / by Patrick Dearen. p. cm.- (Chisholm Trail series; no. 16) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87565-159-3 (pbk.; alk. paper) 1. Fords (Stream crossings) -Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.) history. 2. Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)-Description and travel. 3. Pecos River Valley (N.M. and Tex.)-History. I. Title. II. Series. F392.P3D43 1996 976.4'9-dc2095-26692 CIP Design by Margie Adkins Cover: Nineteenth century drawing of Horsehead Crossing in 1850 (originally published in John Russell Bartlett, Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents, Volume I).

Page v To my father, Delbert Dearen, who introduced me early to the headwaters of the Pecos.

Page vii Contents Foreword ix River of the West 1 Pope's Crossing 9 Emigrant Crossing 31 Horsehead Crossing 43 Spanish Dam Crossing 61 Pontoon Crossing 71 Lancaster Crossing 87 Other Crossings 109 Epilogue 121 About the Author 123 Notes 125 Bibliography 171 Index 187

Page viii A wagon crossing the Pecos, likely at Lancaster Crossing. (courtesy, Clayton Wheat Williams Collection, N. S. Haley Memorial Library, Midland, Texas)

Page ix Foreword I now love the old Pecos, but it has taken me seventy-five years. It has taken Pecos water-induced traumas that long to heal. Patrick Dearen is well acquainted with that obnoxious, noxious, tortured, torturous stream of water going by the name of Pecos. Writer, photographer, backpacker, and tireless researcher, Dearen has been up and down the river countless times by canoe and on foot. Most of his labors have been afootplodding and trodding its Texas length, seeking out crossings. One could say that he has made deep tracks in and along Rio Pecos, deep to the point of being temporarily quicksanded on occasion. Too, there is much work he has done insideresearching historical documents, old letters, maps, newspapers, and books, not to mention taped interviews with old-timers. Work, but not a chore, he says, taking into consideration the scores of nice people he has dealt with: librarians, museum curators, historians, newspaper people, old cowboysin fact, everybody he has met along the way.

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