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Pope's Crossing was a ford on the Pecos River located one mile south of the New Mexico–Texas border on the modern Loving–Reeves county line. Discovered by members of an 1855 expedition tasked with drilling artesian wells east of the Pecos led by U.S. Army topographical engineer John Pope, the ford quickly became the primary crossing of the river on the "upper" military or emigrant road between San Antonio and the ford on the Rio Grande opposite the Mexican town of El Paso del Norte. Heavily used by emigrants, soldiers, traders, and freighters eager to avoid the more difficult and unpredictable crossings further south, Pope's Crossing became a well-traveled part of the network of transcontinental wagon roads that developed across Texas in the 1850s to facilitate settlement and commerce in the southwestern lands recently acquired as a result of the Mexican–American War.
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- ↑ Timothy K. Perttula, The Prehistory of Texas, Texas A&M University Press, 2004, p.278
- ↑ Gunnar M. Brune, Springs of Texas, Volume 1, Texas A&M University Press, 2002, p.451
- 1 2 "Texas Centennial Marker #4744: Camp Hudson, Site of". Texas Historical Commission . Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- 1 2 Julia Cauble Smith, "CAMP HUDSON," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qbc16), accessed January 28, 2014. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
- ↑ "Texas Centennial Marker #663: Camp Hudson, C.S.A." Texas Historical Commission . Retrieved 6 March 2015.