Pecos River
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Sep 27, 2026
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
After this point, the sniffer dogs could find no trace of his scent.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
During a subsequent search that was performed on September 13, 2009, which included members of his family, the scent was found by police dogs along the Pecos River but was quickly lost, just like the initial search.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You've got to look at the evidence.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the evidence says that around these scenes and from where these people have disappeared, there's no tracks, there's no scent.
speaker_0NARRATOR
And rivers are the arteries that deliver life and nourish ecosystems as they journey across the state.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Out west, the rugged Rio Grande is met by the Pecos and Devils, which form oases in the desert.
Ben MastersGUEST
Texas is special for many reasons, but one of them is because of our rivers.
Ben MastersGUEST
Our rivers, with the exception of the Canadian, the Pecos, and the Rio Grande, they originate in Texas.
Ben MastersGUEST
The headwaters are here.
Ben MastersGUEST
They flow all the way through Texas.
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Ben MastersGUEST
Sure.
Ben MastersGUEST
Texas is special for many reasons, but one of them is because of our rivers.
John HagedornHOST
Their beds they made of their saddle blankets, and their food they killed from the wild herds.
John HagedornHOST
For their love of adventure, they rode on across an unknown country until finally they arrived at the little Mexican settlement of Fort Sumner on the Pecos River in the month of February, 1878.
John HagedornHOST
Pat and his friends were hungry, but all the cash they could find was just one dollar and a half between them.
John HagedornHOST
They gave it to Pat and sent him over to the store to see about eating.
Sam SpadeVOICE_ACTOR
Oh, no.
BuckVOICE_ACTOR
The greatest six-gun this side of the Pecos River.
BuckVOICE_ACTOR
Now if I can just find him.
Sam SpadeVOICE_ACTOR
him.In the oven, will you? Oh.
Sue AndersonNARRATOR
Acting upon this information, with the Indian as a guide, Coronado started on April twenty-third, fifteen forty-one, with his whole army to march to Quivira.
Sue AndersonNARRATOR
From Cicuye, or Pecos, whose ruins can still be seen by the traveler from the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe trains, the guide seems to have led the white men down the Pecos River until they were out of the mountains and onto the vast plains, where they soon met the countless herds of bison, or humpbacked oxen.
Sue AndersonNARRATOR
For five weeks, the Europeans plodded onward across what is now known as the Staked Plains, following a generally easterly direction.
Sue AndersonNARRATOR
They had probably crossed the upper branches of the Colorado River of Texas and reached the headwaters of the Nueces when Coronado became convinced that his guide was endeavoring to lose him in this limitless expanse of rolling prairie.
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Sue AndersonNARRATOR
The army started from Sikuye, leaving the village at peace and, as it seemed, contented, and under obligations to maintain the friendship because their governor and captain had been restored to them.
Sue AndersonNARRATOR
Proceeding toward the plains, which are all on the other side of the mountains, after four days' journey they came to a river with a large, deep current which flowed down toward Sikuye, and they named this the Sikuye River.
Sue AndersonNARRATOR
Note the Pecos River.
Sue AndersonNARRATOR
They had to stop here to make a bridge so as to cross it.
Steve StocktonHOST
After this point, the sniffer dogs could find no trace of a scent.
Steve StocktonHOST
During a subsequent search that was performed on September 13, 2009, which included members of his family, the scent was found by police dogs along the Pecos River, but was quickly lost, just like the initial search.
Steve StocktonHOST
So there are 10 of the strangest National Park disappearances.
Steve StocktonHOST
As we continue this series, I'll keep you updated on these cases if updates become available.
Ben MastersGUEST
We figured out how to find them, how to follow them, how to stay with them for weeks on end and how to film them hunt.
Ben MastersGUEST
And we found this lioness on the Pecos river, uh, that was raising these three nearly full grown kittens and just got some outrageous hunt sequences.
Ben MastersGUEST
It's, uh, It was fun.
Ben MastersGUEST
I mean, we would stay up for days on end, and that was probably our most challenging shoot to accomplish.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
After this point, the sniffer dogs could find no trace of his scent.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
During a subsequent search that was performed on September 13, 2009, which included members of his family, the scent was found by police dogs along the Pecos River but was quickly lost, just like the initial search.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Number 10.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Terrence Woods.
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