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Updated: June 17, 2025
It is to be a long one, I heard, as he is to take a new route over the Llano Estacado." "Over the Llano Estacado?" "Such, I was told, was his intention." "Anything else to say, sergeant?" "Nothing, colonel, except that the girl has a sweetheart the same young fellow who bet so heavily against you at the fiesta." "The devil!" exclaimed Vizcarra, while a deep shadow crossed his forehead.
In the Comanche of the Llano Estacado, or the Pawnee of the Platte, he would have found an exact counterpart of the Ishmaelitish wanderer over the sandy plains of the Saara. He was allowed but scant time to philosophise upon these ethnological phenomena.
Every plains Indian firmly believed that the buffalo were produced in countless numbers in a country under ground; that every spring the surplus swarmed, like bees from a hive, out of the immense cave-like opening in the region of the great Llano Estacado, or Staked Plain of Texas.
Scarcely had the news been announced when the scout from the other direction galloped back. "Well, what is it?" asked the lieutenant. "Some of the redskins are ahead of us, that's certain." "What tribe?" "The Jiccarilla Apaches, I think; the worst set of scamps this side of the Llano Estacado." "How many?" "I can't make out more than a dozen, and there may be less."
As this road was only a trail, often obliterated by the drifting sands of the desert, tall stakes were set up at intervals to indicate the route. Hence the name "Llano Estacado" literally, Staked Plain. In those days Spain was a strong, enterprising nation, and her Mexican colonists could travel over most parts of their vast territory without fear of being assaulted by the savages.
Dim in the distance was the Llano itself a mesa with a floor as even as a table; a treeless plain without even a weed or shrub for a landmark; a plateau of peril without end. The rider was doing well to avoid the Llano Estacado. Outlaw Indian bands roamed over its desolate expanse the only human beings who could live there.
The lesser party went off in almost the opposite direction, south-westerly, leaving the Llano Estacado on their left, and journeying on, crossed the Rio Pecos at a point below and outside the farthest frontier settlement of New Mexico towards the prairies.
In an hour only half a dozen riders remained on his trail. Blizzard was still going strong. Out on the great Llano Estacado, The Kid managed, by superior horsemanship, to give the balance of his pursuers the slip. When he had succeeded in confusing them, he slowed his faithful mount down for a needed rest. And now where was the wagon train? Where was he to find it? A chill raced down his spine.
"Colonel Miranda," rejoins Hamersley, in a tone that tells of something on his mind, a proposition he would make to his host, and feels delicacy in declaring it, "in coming back by the Llano Estacado I have another object in view besides the idea of a direct route." "What other object, amago mio?" "The hope of inducing you to accompany me to the States you and yours."
The large masses of sand not found in place have been transported and accumulated by water or by wind, the former being generally considered the most important of these agencies; for the extensive deposits of the Sahara, of the Arabian peninsulas, of the Llano Estacado and other North and South American deserts, of the deserts of Persia, and of that of Gobi, are supposed to have been swept together or distributed by marine currents, and to have been elevated above the ocean by the same means as other upheaved strata.
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