Biohardson’s Almanac, 1870 , contains an old map which shows the San /Saha Trail northward and westward from Fredericksburg,, It proceeded to th- Mason, then to Ft San Saha in the center of Menard County,, On this map also i.s shown the old upper stage coach road .to El Paso through the Green Mountains; thence up the main Concho river, south of Castle mountains, crossing the Pecos at Emigrant Crossing (?); thence up the Pecos river and Deleware creek and on to El Paso. All thisieTrfd lswest of Fredericksburg are also shown in Baht's "History of the Davis Mountains and the Big Bend Country#"
This u'.per trail to El PasoV however-, was not successful, because of difficulty in finding the needed amount of water along the way. The other road through the Davis mountains and Ft. Davi s was the more traveled way.
Mr. Locke suggests there oust have been considerable population around the old Spanish fort din the San S aba. Old irrigation works there and other ancient construction indicate this. The Spanish fort on the .San Saba river is the initial starting point for surveys just as the headstone of an officer's grave at Ft. Lancaster is the initial starting point for blocks of surveys in Crockett county.
Julius Luckenbach remembers a course different from this shown by Mr., Locke but .old surveys and records before Mr. Luckenbach.5s time show that the ancient San Saba Trail ran essentially as Mr. Locke outlines it. The country came into general use and other roads developed winch could lead to confus&dntraditions. This can only be cleared \ip by reference to more ancient maps.
Mr. Luckenbach's father, 70 years ago, went v ith other pioneers to Llano then came back with other settlers and. established Fredericksburg, loginning about 55 years ago Mr. Luckenbach teamed over the road which an approximately as follows. This was undoubtedly a later development road matters from the old Spani sh . days of. the pest two centuries.