FORT LEAVENWORTH TO EL PASO, VIA SANTA FE.
| Points. | Distance from place to place. | Distance from Fort Leavenworth. |
| Fort Leavenworth to— | Miles. | Miles. |
| Upper Ferry, Kansas river, | 35 | 35 |
| Willow Spring, | 17 | 52 |
| 110 Creek, | 24 | 76 |
| Beaver Creek, | 12 | 88 |
| Dragoon Creek, | 8 | 96 |
| Bluff Creek, | 13 | 109 |
| Council Grove, | 12 | 121 |
| Diamond Spring, | 15 | 136 |
| Lost Spring, | 14 | 150 |
| Cotton Wood, | 15 | 165 |
| Main Turkey Creek, | 18 | 183 |
| Little Arkansas, | 26 | 209 |
| Big Cow Creek, | 21 | 230 |
| Walnut Creek, | 25 | 255 |
| Pawnee Fork, | 25 | 280 |
| Cow Creek, | 12 | 292 |
| Fort Mann, | 55 | 347 |
| Crossing of Arkansas, | 26 | 373 |
| Sand Creek, | 50 | 423 |
| Lower Spring on Cimerone, | 8 | 431 |
| Middle Spring, | 34 | 465 |
| Crossing of Cimerone, | 27 | 492 |
| Cold Spring, | 18 | 510 |
| Cedar Spring, | 14 | 524 |
| McNee's Creek, | 10 | 534 |
| Cotton Wood, | 10 | 544 |
| Rabbit-ear Spring, | 14 | 558 |
| Whetstone, | 24 | 582 |
| Point-of-Rocks, | 15 | 597 |
| Red River, | 21 | 618 |
| Ocate, | 5 | 623 |
| Wagon Mound, | 20 | 643 |
| Rock Creek, | 16 | 659 |
| Mora River, | 8 | 667 |
| Las Vegas, | 19 | 686 |
| St. Miguel, | 23 | 709 |
| Old Peco Church, | 24 | 733 |
| Points. | Distance from place to place. | Distance from Fort Leavenworth. |
| Old Pecos Church to— | Miles. | Miles. |
| Santa Fé, | 24 | 757 |
| Alburquerque, | 65 | 822 |
| Peralto (The Oteros), | 45 | 887 |
| La Joya, | ||
| Socorro, | 18 | 905 |
| Ford of Del Norte, above the ruins of Valverde,[77] | 25 | 930 |
| Fra Christoval, entrance of Jornada de los Muertos, | 16 | 946 |
| Doña Anna (Mexican town), | 95 | 1,041 |
| Grove on river, | 15 | 1,056 |
| Brazito, | 16 | 1,072 |
| El Paso, | 32 | 1,104 |
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