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Photographer: Richard Denney
Taken: March 23, 2012
Caption: Alamo Wash and the Comanche Trail
Additional Description: A view from the rear of Luna's Jacal out onto Alamo Wash. As noted in the write-up for the National Register of Historic Places, Alamo Wash was on the Comanche War Trail through the park. A story recounted in the NRHP write-up relates how Luna through diplomacy survived the "incursions of these raiding Indians", though an interview with a grandson of Luna, Demencio C. Luna Jr., put Luna's arrival at Alamo Wash after the close of the Comanche Trail (Exploring The Big Bend Country, Koch and Price). Note how the Jacal incorporates a boulder as the rear wall of the Jacal.
Submitted: May 14, 2014, by Richard Denney of Austin, Texas.
Database Locator Identification Number: p273320
File Size: 3.608 Megabytes

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