The Prairie Traveler
by Randolph Barnes Marcy, Captain, U.S.A.
Journal and Mileage Chart

Itinerary II

Taken from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe,
by the way of the upper ferry of the Kansas River and the Cimarron Cutoff.

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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