The Black Pool
"...Passed a
large spring some forty yards to the left of the road. A
great many names are carved in the rocks around. We learned
from the inscriptions the [Edmonson Cherokee/white] ox team company left
that they had passed there on
the 17th..."
May 25, 1850 Quesenbury Diary
Brown
of the all Cherokee Company
25 miles east of Black Pool recorded
" May 30..passed the ruins of
"May 31 traveled 25 miles today...crossing of the
Santa Fe road
Maj. FitzPatrick, Indian agent, was there
paying Indian annuities to the (6) different tribes..."
4 June " 3 or 4 m. Santafee road_____3/4d crossed riv. and at the
crossing we met with some Indian traiders encamped with furs peltries
etc...we went a few miles further and meet with 11 waggons going to St.
Lewis lowded with buffalow robes
they said they had 7000 on the largest waggons." 1849 Crawford
Diary
[Seth Ward and Wm. Guerrier]
