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Black Pool

The Black Pool, landmark on the Santa Fe Trail (Wet Branch), east of Dodge City, Kansas.

"...Passed a large spring some forty yards to the left of the road. A great many names are carved in the rocks around. We learned from the inscriptions the [Edmonson Cherokee/White] ox team company left that they had passed there on the 17th..." May 25, 1850 Diary.

 

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