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Where exactly is the lake where the Gileños were slaughtered?
In chapter XII, the gang travels East in pursuit of the Apache from the Gila wilderness after the bear eats the Delaware. After they find the dead argonauts, they travel four hours south to find the camp. I’m trying to find where that would logically be on Google earth but I don’t actually see any water in a place where I think it would make any sense. It can’t be the caballo reservoir; that didn’t exist prior to the dam and was too big anyway. They don’t cross the Rio grande so there’s a limited amount of space for it to arrive. Is it a temporary floodplain lake? Am I off? The Bosque Del Apache, maybe?
u/Dreadpipes — 4 days ago