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[ The Old Santa Fe Trail crosses the creek some miles north of Hutchinson, and coincides with the track again at the mouth of Walnut Creek, three miles east of Great Bend.]
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[ There are many conflicting accounts in regard to the sum Don Antonio carried with him on that unfortunate trip. Some authorities put it as high as sixty thousand; I have taken a mean of the various sums, and as this method will suffice in mathematics, perhaps we can approximate the truth in this instance.]
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[ General Emory of the Union army during the Civil War. He made an official report of the country through which the Army of the West passed, accompanied by maps, and his Reconnoissance in New Mexico and California, published by the government in 1848, is the first authentic record of the region, considered topographically and geologically.]
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[ Doniphan's Expedition, containing an account of the Conquest of New Mexico, etc. John T. Hughes, A.B., of the First Regiment of Missouri Cavalry. 1850.]
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[ Deep Gorge.]