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Ch. 5: Southwest the Course

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Soon the Pima villages were known to be near. Friendly tribesmen came out to meet the pack trains, as the exhausted emigrants stumbled along. Shirts and blankets were the best trade goods with which to bar­gain for fresh food.
And now the double tide of emigrants, those who had packed down the Gila from its upper reaches and those who had come up from Tucson , joined and moved down the valley of the Gila River in intense heat and with a sober dread of what was to come.
 
 

 
 
Behind the mountains in the view of the Gila Valley below lay the short-cut known as the "Jornada de las Estrellas" which was supposed to save time and only added to the sufferings of those who tried it.
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
       
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