2002-08-21_PERMIT FILE - M2002004 ‎(2)‎

• Permit No: M2002004
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• Doc Date: 8/21/2002
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DEPARTMENT OFTHE INTERIOR TO ACCOMPANY MA? 1 930
UNITED STATES GEOLOGKALSUR'EY
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HISTORIC TRAIL MAPS OF THE PUEBLO 1 x 2 QUADRANGLE, COLORADO
CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT TRAILS, EXPLORATION, AND EVENTS
[Plan names are shown on sheet I: routes of early travelers are shown on sheet 21
13.000 B.C. to A.D. 1900
Indian occupation and Indian trails. Prehistoric
cultures included. from early to late: Folsom, people
making parallel - flaked points. Archaic. Woodland. and
Panhandle. Later Indian tribes occupying area included
Plains Apache, Cheyenne, Ute, Arapaho. Comanche.
Kiowa. and Pawnee.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado in his journey to
Quivira (east of Pueblo quadrangle). across New
Mexico and Kansas but not Colorado, probably
introduced many of the common weeds into the Great
Plains in the feed for his horses.
The Plains Apaches often captured Pueblo Indians for
slaves. Don Juan de Archuleta was sent by the Spanish
Governor to El Cuartelejo (the far quarter), an Apache
farming community east of Pueblo quadrangle, to
return some Christian Indians to the Taos Pueblo. He
went through the Pueblo quadrangle, but by an
unknown route.
Gov. Diego de Vargas. to recapture some Taos and
Picuris Indians. also went to El Cuartelejo through the
Pueblo quadrangle. and his route is unknown.
1 706 July 29 to Oct. 1
Don Juan de Ulibarri went from Santa Fe to Ei
Cuartelejo to recover captured Picuris Indians from the
Apaches. He traveled approximately up the Taos Trail
to the site of Pueblo. up Fountain Creek nearly to
present Pueblo -El Paso County line. the due eas:-
ward.
1719 Oct. 12 to Nov. (7)
Gov. Antonio de Valverde went from Santa Fe to near
El Cuartelejo on a punitive expedition against the Ute
and Comanche Nations. He probably traveled down
Greenhorn River and St. Charles River to the Arkan ::s
River. crossed the river and went cross country to
Fountain Creek. then north on east side of Fountain
By Glenn R. Scott
1739 July 5( ?)
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Creek. cutting due north away from Fountain Creek
nearly to the Arkansas -South Platte divide (just north
of the quadrangle), then southeastward to the Arkansas
River south of El Cuartelejo. Possibly he returned to
Santa Fe up the Arkansas and Huerfano Rivers.
1720 June
Col. Don Pedro de Villasur and his expedition went
from Santa Fe to the South Platte River to investigate
French activity on the northeastern border of Mexico.
They struck the Arkansas River east of the site of
Pueblo, then went cast to Horse Creek east of the quad-
rangle, then north to the South Platte River. Villasur
and 44 others were killed by Indians: 13 survived.
Pierre and Paul Mallet and seven or eight French
Canadian fur traders possibly crossed the southeast
corner of the quadrangle en route from Missouri River
to Santa Fe.
1750( ?) to 1763(7)
French traders from the upper Mississippi came by way
of the Arkansas River in Colorado on their way to S to
Fe. One party built a trading house, apparently the rest
in Colorado, at a Comanche village somewhere z't ' : rag
the Arkansas River, possibly north of the river any . •st
of the mountains. They were seized and imprison.: d oy
the Spanish, but acquitted when found to have '•..en
within Louisiana.
1779 Aug. 24
Guy. Don Juan Bautista de Anza, to suppres the
Comanche Nation under Chief Cuerno Verde (C :n-
horn), crossed San Luis Valley and Poncha Pass: p... °d
near site of Salida on Aug. 28. near Cameron Mop
to South Park, south of Pikes Peak near site of C 1e
Creek: down Little Fountain Creek( ?) to Fountain
Creek. to site of Pueblo; then to Greenhorn River where
Chief Cuerno Verde and many of his nation were
San Carlos de los Jupes. a settlement possibly ale- the
St. Charles River near the Arkansas River. was or:zred