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From: "Charles A. Wyly" <>
Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails] Re:Texas Trace
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 16:06:12 -0500


Hi,
East Texas has some red clay. So does some of Central Texas and the
Badlands or Rolling plains from Sweetwater to Snyder to Post , Texas is
loaded with a few hundred square miles of Red clay, below the Caprockedge
of the High Plains towards Lubbock.El Camino Real" the Spanish Old
King's Highway from Natchitoches La. to Nacodoches, Texas and on to San
Antonio has a lot of red clay. It passes Raylene, La. and notfr from
Zwolie, La. Oldest Spanish and French Iron work decorations in Louisiana
are at Natchitoches, facing the old port area. When Civil war explosives
were used to blast a 60 mile log jamb of trees from a flood and/or 1700's
Earthquake, Natchitoches lost business as they could get to Shrevesport
then, before Gov. Huey Long built a low bridge at Baton Rouge, so nothing
but barges could get upstream. Caddo Lake at Port Jefferson, Texas saw a
4 or so feet drop in the water level.

The first Spanish Capitonl of Texas was near Raylene, Louisiana and old
Fort Jessup, where Gen Taylor served before 1836. There were freight
wagons from port city of Natchitoches, La. to Nacodoches, Texas
Charles A. Wyly

On Wed, 9 May 2001 07:49:02 -0500 "Sara D" <> writes:
> Hi, Larry. First of all, I should make it clear that what I wrote
> was an
> extraction of an extraction of his Diary. The poor man suffered
> from
> spiritual battles within himself and most of the diary consists of
> accounts
> of these battles. A kind lady, whose name I have lost, did the
> first
> extration for a genealogy magazine, lost the name of that, too.
> Sorry. This
> lady deserves a great big medal for her work....his diary is really
> pretty
> dreary. Sometime back I sent her extract to Southern Trails in a
> series.
> If interested, I guess they would be in Rootsweb's archives. I
> had a
> computer crash, so lost my own copies.
>
> I rechecked, and the accounts of the 14th of October are accurate,
> i.e.,
> "baren fork of Clins River."
>
> Also, "300 yards wide" is what was written in the extract. Maybe
> he meant
> 300 yards long, bank to bank. I can't put my hands on the whole
> diary, so
> can't check the "original" copy.
>
> They were able to buy food for their animals almost every day, so
> they
> passed through regions that were fairly well populated. He also
> commented
> on rich, red soil, so obviously passed through Oklahoma somewhere.
> Can you
> believe it, I have never tried to follow the trail on a map?
>
> He mentions, several times, difficulty in "changing" money. I
> assume he
> meant his gold. He also kept a strict account of the money he
> spent. Best
> regards, Sara
>
>
>
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