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OWL CANYON CULTURAL RESOURCE/ENVIRONMENTAI. RECONNAISSANCE observed with more smooth wire, fence posts, and a few scattered shards of blue and green historic glass. Historic Period Spanish Entrada General Juan de Ulibarra was probably the first European official to see the project area. On a Spanish state mission to recover fleeing Picuries Pueblo Indians from a Jicarilla Apache farming community north of the Arkansas River Ulibarra's journals clearly puts his military column supported by 100 Indian allies in the vicinity of the proposed quarry area on July 29, 1706 (Schreiber 29-30). Beulah Historical Society researchers further note that there is a high probability that the General's column, "...traveled northeast near the present junction of Siloam and Red Creek roads and followed the trail along Peck Creek to where it joins that [Arkansas] river" (Schreiber 36). The rich environmental niche and good water that exists in the proposed mining area would have been irresistible to a large widely dispersed Spanish military column of the period. European Entrada The first settler to the region was the Mexican bandito Juan Mace who made the eastern slope of the Wet Mountains -Mace's Hole, now called Beulah -his hideout sometime in the early 1850's. "Local tradition and early newspaper accounts have kept alive many stories of his activities. However, even the tales ofthe early pioneers seldom agree in their details" (Schreiber 53). A cunning outlaw leader with many followers Juan Mace's flair for self-promotion and good hideout close to major trails made him a force to be dealt with in his times. Schreiber quotes a Pueblo Chieftain article as saying, "Mace was a deadly shot and was said to have been fearless" (57). She goes on to note that, "...once he obtained portions of herds, no chase past the plains was made. By road or trail through Second Mace's Hole, Jenkins Park, and Hardscrabble, Mace would make his get-away with cattle and horses, and