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on the Rio Grande, but the trail continued north along the river for five leagues, across a small portion of the
Jornada del Muerto Volcano lava fields, which originally reached across the Rio Grande. This large lava field has a very rough surface, making travel across it very difficult. This
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Jornada del Muerto remains almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped to the present day. Located just to the east of the southernmost region of the desert is the Jornada Basin LTER station, used for study of desert ecology, land management, plant physiology, and related topics.
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On the fourteenth day of May, the eighth day of our journey, we made an early start. We reached the river at eleven‑thirty. The livestock were so thirsty that they ran to reach the water. After this fashion were the thirty leagues of this difficult stage traveled.
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from the 1780s. An extremely large
Spanish rancho was later established and a large hacienda was built at the crossing at Val Verde in the early 1820s. However it was abandoned soon after under the pressure of Apache raids and attacks by 1826.
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because the route was shorter and easier to traverse with the ox-drawn carts and livestock of the
Spanish colonists. It took five days of little water for Oñate to cross the Jornada. The Jornada del Muerto was named when the bones of a German
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down the west side of the Rio Grande to Fort Thorn. This road was also the route of supply for the forts. This Army protection, and the supply columns use of the road led to native New
Mexican settlements on the lower Rio Grande, at
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Hydrogeology of central
Jornada del Muerto: Implications for travel along El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Sierra and Doña Ana Counties, New Mexico open-file report 573 June 2015, Talon Newton, Trevor Kludt, Dave Love, and Ethan
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Abundant evidence of Paleo-Indian occupation has been found near
Mockingbird Gap in the northern Jornada. The projectile points and other remains found by archaeologists are examples of the
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dwellers, who had a well-developed agriculture and a peaceable tradition. After the first crossing the
Jornada del Muerto in 1598 they named one of the first pueblos they came to
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was built on the west bank of the Rio Grande in 1853. It was located where a trail from the
Jornada road, established by Forty-niners, crossed the Rio Grande to the west bank at
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Wilson, John P., Between the River and the
Mountains: A History of Early Settlement in Sierra County, New Mexico, Report #40, John P. Wilson, Las Cruces, New Mexico, August 1985
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On horseback the Jornada could be traversed in as little as two days, as described by Bishop Tamarón traveling north on his visitation to New Mexico in 1760. Leaving the
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site, in the northernmost part of the Jornada del Muerto Basin. Less than a month after Trinity, nuclear bomb "Little Boy" was detonated over Hiroshima, Japan.
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to the east, on to the plain of the Jornada. The last opportunity for filling water barrels and watering stock before passing farther north was from the
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On this day, the twelfth of the month and the sixth of the journey, we came to the Jornada del Muerto. To prepare for it, a detour is made to seek the
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to meet Cooke's road three miles above Fort Thorn. These offered some protection on the Jornada road and also on the
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and Socorro Pueblos, were forced to retreat southward, across the Jornada del Muerto, The survivors resettled on the
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was established in 1851 across the river and a little north of the ford of Valverde, and it was replaced in 1854 by
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around and south of El Paso del Norte, 'the Pass to the North', which is now separated between the Mexican city of
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that erupted about 760,000 years ago, reaching an elevation of 5,136 ft (1,565 m). The volcano's
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Crossing the Jornada del Muerto: Hydrogeoogical and Geomorphological controls on traveling El Camino Real
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on an old trail on the west bank of the Rio Grande as far as a few miles above the vicinity of modern
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led a new group of settlers north across the Jornada del Muerto to resettle northern New Mexico.
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overlooking the Rio Grande five leagues beyond Robledo and a half league from the River.
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is near the trail, but is often dry. The Jornada is one of the northernmost parts of the
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portion of the trail reached the paraje del Contadero along the Rio Grande south of the
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became the name of a watering and populated place along the route across the Jornada.
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take place in a remote biological testing facility located in the Jornada del Muerto.
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Crumpler, L. S., and J. C. Aubele, (1990), Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico, in
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1482:"Jornada del Muerto: Retracing the Dead Man's Journey" by Douglas Preston
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1235:"Overview of Fresh and Brackish Water Quality: Jornada del Muerto"
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The Rio Grande, Mexico and Pacific Railroad (a subsidiary of the
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began, thousands of people were following Cooke's road west to
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1036:"Jornada del Muerto" is the title of a song that appears on
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miles below the ford and the Mesa, also on the west bank.
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lava fields. The waterless portion of the trail ends at
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on the west. The western mountains block access to the
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The Yellowlegs: The Story of the United States Cavalry
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atomic site is northwest of the Malpais. The forested
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from newmexicohistory.org accessed December 28, 2016.
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New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
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New Mexico Magazine, September 1994, p. 24-31.
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from newmexicohistory.org accessed January 10, 2016
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823:Further north the trail crosses a number of small
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1103:"Leaving El Paso" is the title of a song by
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1454:"El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro"
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867:Jornada del Muerto Volcano
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1064:A portion of the novel
892:Philip St. George Cooke
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1350:Simmons, Marc (1991).
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1352:The Last Conquistador
1304:. New Mexico Magazine
1189:Simmons, Marc (1978)
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799:Paraje de San Diego
356:Daily mean °F (°C)
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85:Socorro, New Mexico
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2212:Jornada del Muerto
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1001:In popular culture
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908:Cooke's Wagon Road
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2207:Great Sandy
2197:Great Basin
1838:Betpak-Dala
1463:23 February
1281:20 February
1244:22 February
1105:Tom Russell
1096:, starring
1008:Linkin Park
989:Atomic test
935:Fort Conrad
931:San Antonio
900:San Antonio
779:Fort Selden
724:. In 1692,
119:atomic bomb
34:White Sands
2577:Categories
2547:32°50′50″N
2466:Antarctica
2429:Patagonian
2414:La Guajira
2354:Strzelecki
2247:Red Desert
2187:Forty Mile
2172:Chihuahuan
2152:Black Rock
1968:South Asia
1953:Taklamakan
1728:Tanezrouft
1504:2007-03-27
1476:References
1361:0806123680
1030:Dual Hawks
943:Fort Thorn
939:Fort Craig
916:California
856:Fort McRae
836:Engle Lake
771:Rio Grande
706:Rio Grande
671:Rio Grande
208:lava field
162:Engle Lake
154:Rio Grande
134:vegetation
81:Las Cruces
2496:Greenland
2458:Antarctic
2306:Australia
2182:Escalante
2119:Deliblato
1976:Cholistan
1893:East Asia
1693:Moçâmedes
1040:'s album
1010:'s album
884:Val Verde
863:Lava Gate
828:lake beds
825:ephemeral
773:from the
746:San Diego
714:Chihuahua
186:Volcanism
169:ecoregion
97:New Spain
2525:Category
2177:Colorado
2157:Carcross
2142:Amargosa
2114:Tabernas
2104:Monegros
2054:Registan
1858:Moiynkum
1853:Kyzylkum
1765:Ad-Dahna
1683:Kalahari
1633:Algerian
1112:See also
1042:Excision
894:and the
496:Average
2530:Commons
2520:Project
2439:Tatacoa
2434:Sechura
2409:Atacama
2387:Rangipo
2349:Simpson
2344:Pedirka
2339:Painted
2297:Oceania
2262:Sonoran
2109:Oleshky
1986:Katpana
1958:Tengger
1883:Ustyurt
1873:Sarykum
1848:Karakum
1833:Barsuki
1828:Aralkum
1780:Judaean
1775:Arabian
1738:Western
1668:Eastern
1658:Danakil
1579:deserts
1335:6 March
1308:8 March
1195:page 28
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933:began.
718:El Paso
691:Socorro
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192:malpaís
171:in the
89:Spanish
42:Trinity
36:is the
2483:Arctic
2369:Tirari
2364:Tanami
2314:Gibson
2252:Sevier
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2227:Mojave
2162:Carson
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2086:Europe
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2049:Polond
2044:Naomid
1991:Kharan
1948:Qaidam
1936:Kubuqi
1926:Kumtag
1878:Taukum
1800:Syrian
1733:Ténéré
1723:Sahara
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1688:Libyan
1663:Djurab
1653:Chalbi
1638:Bayuda
1625:Africa
1590:Desert
1577:World
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101:Mexico
40:. The
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2039:Margo
2029:Leili
2024:Khash
2019:Kavir
1941:Mu Us
1931:Ordos
1785:Negev
1770:Nefud
1708:Nyiri
1698:Namib
1673:Ferlo
1537:Mamer
1178:51436
1144:Notes
1038:Nadja
981:with
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880:fords
765:Trail
742:river
722:Texas
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281:Year
198:is a
176:biome
131:xeric
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