Comanche Springs

If short of war paint, he replenished his favorite red color from the outcroppings of cinnabar near Terlingua Creek, then headed through the Badlands and out upon the range country by way of Persimmon Gap.

From the gap, he went to Comanche Springs, present Fort Stockton, crossed the Pecos River at Horsehead Crossing, then rode north to the sand dunes to water a famishing flock, after which he headed east to the sulfur and the big spring.

Then he turned northward around the camp rock that marks the eastern extremity of the terrible Llano Estacado to proceed on north until he actually scrambled out upon the plateau.

Then he proceeded towards Santa Fe to meet somewhere, possibly at Casa Amarillas, in that then desolate region, the Comancheros, or middlemen, between himself and the Mexican settlers of the upper Rio Grande Valley near Santa Fe.