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Mike Capron’s
Horsehead Crossing
The name “Horsehead Crossing” suggests the violent history of this ford on the Pecos River, twelve mile west of Castle Gap. They say “When a bad man dies he goes either to hell or the Pecos.” Once, Charles Goodnight counted thirteen graves at the site. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, Comanches were savaging haciendas in Mexico by the light of autumn’s Comanche Moon.
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