In this table, the distance was taken by an odometer and are given in miles and hundredths of a mile. The measured distances between the crossing of the Arkansas and Santa Fe are from Major Kendrick's published table. Wood, water, and grass are found at all points where the absence of them is not stated.
Miles from Fort Leavenworth to
2.88. Salt Creek
9.69. Stranger's Creek
13.54. Stranger's Creek
9.60. Grasshopper Creek
6.50. Grasshopper Creek
2.86. Grasshopper Creek
2.60. Grasshopper Creek
4.54. Soldier's Creek
2.45. Upper Ferry, Kansas River
7.41. Pottawatomie Settlement
5.75. Pottawatomie Creek
3.89. White Wakarussi Creek
7.78. White Wakarussi Creek
6.27. White Wakarussi Creek
0.73. Road from Independence - No place to encamp
5.72. White Wakarussi Creek
2.51. White Wakarussi Creek
2.82. 142-mile Creek
7.80. Bluff Creek
5.77. Rock Creek
5.08. Big John Spring
2.29. Council Grove
7.97. Elm Creek - Water generally
8.06. Diamond Spring
1.42. Diamond Creek
15.46. Lost Spring - No wood
9.25. Mud Creek - Water uncertain; no wood
7.76. Cottonwood Creek
6.16. Water Holes - Water generally; no wood
12.44. Big Turkey Creek - No water
7.83. Little Turkey Creek - Water uncertain; no wood
18.19. Little Arkansas River
10.60. Owl Creek - Water generally in holes above and below crossing
6.39. Little Cow Creek - Water only occasionally
2.93. Big Cow Creek - Water holes, 10 miles (estimated),
Water uncertain; no wood
18.24. Bend of the Arkansas
6.66. Walnut Creek
16.35. Pawnee Rock - Teams sometimes camp near here, and drive
stock to the Arkansas to water, No wood
5.28. Ash Creek - Water above and below crossing, uncertain
6.65. Pawnee Fork - Best grass some distance above crossing
From Pawnee Fork to the lower crossing of the Arkansas,
a distance of 98 1/2 miles, convenient camping-places
can be found along the Arkansas; the most prominent
localities are therefore only mentioned, A supply of
fuel should be laid in at Pawnee Fork to last till you
pass Fort Mann, though it may be obtained, but
inconveniently, from the opposite side of the Arkansas,
Dry Route branches off at 3 1/2 miles (estimated), This
route joins the main one again 10 miles this side of
Fort Mann, It is said to be a good one, but deficient
in water and without wood
11.43. Coon Creek
46.58. Jackson's Island
5.01. Dry Route comes in
10.05. Fort Mann
25.34. Lower Crossing of the Arkansas - The Bent's Fort Route
branches off at this point, A supply of wood should
be got from this vicinity to last till you reach
Cedar Creek
15.68. Water-hole - Water uncertain; no wood
30.02. Two Water-holes - Water uncertain; no wood
14.14. Lower Cimarron Springs - No wood
20.00. Pools of Water - Water uncertain; no wood
l9.02. Middle Springs of the Cimarron - No wood
12.93. Little Crossing of the Cimarron - No wood
14.10. Upper Cimarron Springs - No wood, Pools of water 7
miles (estimated), No wood
19.05. Cold Spring - A tree here and there in the vicinity
Pools of water, 11 miles (estimated), Water
uncertain; no wood
16.13. Cedar Creek - M'Nees' Creek, 10 miles (estimated),
Water indifferent and uncertain; scant pasture; no
wood. Arroyo del la Sena, 2 1/2 miles (estimated), No
water
21.99. Cottonwood Creek - No water, Arroyo del Burro, 5 miles
(estimated)
l5.17. Rabbit-Ear Creek- 10 miles (estimated), springs. Round
Mound, 8 miles (estimated), No water; no wood; no
camping place
Rock Creek, 10 miles (estimated), Grazing scant; no wood
26.40. Whetstone Creek - Spring; no wood. Arroyo Don Carlos,
10 1/2 miles (estimated), Water, etc., to the left of
the road
14.13. Point of Rocks - Water and grass up the canon, just
after crossing the point; scattering shrub cedars on
the neighboring heights
16.62. Sandy Arroyo - Water uncertain; no wood, Crossing of
Canadian River, 4 3/4 miles (estimated), Grazing
above the crossing; willows
10.05. Rio Ocate - Wood 1/3 of a mile to right of road;
grass in the canon, Pond of water, 13 1/2 miles
(estimated) No wood
19.65. Wagon Mound - Santa Clara Springs, Wood brought from
the Rio Ocate, Rio del Perro (Rock Creek), 17 1/2
miles (estimated)
21.62. Canon del Lobo- Rio Moro, 3 1/2 miles (estimated)
Rio Sapillo, 1 mile (estimated), The Bent's Fort Route
comes in here
18.00. Las Vegas - Forage purchasable
13.05. Tacolote - Forage purchasable, Ojo Vernal, 5 miles
(estimated), No grass to speak of
14.00. San Miguel - Forage purchasable; no grass
21.81. Ruins of Pecos - Grazing very scant, Cottonwood Creek,
4 1/2 miles (estimated), Water uncertain; no grass
13.41. Stone Corral - No grass
10.80. Santa Fe - Forage purchasable; no grazing
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