A Trip To Agua Dulce In 1848
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A Trip To Agua Dulce In 1848 A good description of what this country was like in its natural state can be found in a report of a trip to Agua Dulce in the Dec.16, 1848 edition of the Corpus Christi Star. After leaving Corpus Christi, the party camped at a water hole for the night. They killed a buck and had a good supper by the fire. The mustangs came around them, during the evening, but did not succeed in enticing away their horses. Next morning, they started early and after two miles came to a prairie. Wherever they looked, there were large herds of mustangs, deer, and antelope. The deer were so gentle they would stand and stare and frisk around them as though they were unaccustomed to the sight and smell of man. At nine o'clock they reached Agua Dulce. The writer had supposed the creek was a succession of water holes, wit dry land between them. But where the party reached the stream, it looked like a lagoon. They followed it for four miles without being able to cross it. It was 40 to 50 yards wide and very deep. On either side of the creek, the prairie was covered with mesquite grass. From the Agua Dulce the party found the road traveled by Gen. Zachary Taylor's soldiers when they marched south two years before. They traveled this road until they reached home, pleased with the trip. The writer was the editor of the Star ---- John H. Peoples, for whom Peoples Street was named. He got the wanderlust again a few months later, in 1849, and set out for the California gold fields. He drowned on the way. Murphy Givens KEDT Radio Scripts |
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Murphy Givens |
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4/5/2002 |
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MP3; Length 1 min. 56 sec. |
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