Did you ever hear of any Indian villages or Indian towns near Cottonwood Creek or Buckman Springs?
It used to be quite a place, but I don’t know very much of any descendants. Did you know any of the Indians that went down into Mexico to live instead of staying here? I read quite a bit about people going down there and then couldn’t get back. They went down there and became Mexican citizens and now they have trouble coming back to the United States. Oh, yes, there were a lot of them. Now you take all of that Jacumba Hot Springs— most all of them went on down into Mexico. I think some of the Aguerros moved over to Manzanita Reservation and I think some of the blood line still thrives in Murrietta. I think some of them are still living. Most of them in Jacumba. That was about the first good lush meadow they hit after coming out of the Mira canyon, you know, by pack trains or whatever and that’s a good valley and good water. Well, it wasn’t long before that was homesteaded and became ranches. That was all taken over so they moved. There was nothing else for them in the North, but there
