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My Texas almanac says the Red River is full of quicksand. How would cowboys or wagon trains know where to cross and where not?

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My Texas almanac says the Red River is full of quicksand. How would cowboys or wagon trains know where to cross and where not?

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Good question. I can only speculate that they depended on advice from others, prior experience, and pure blind luck. Of course, once someone else had mapped out a safe route, others tended to follow it.