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|  Subject: Old Road Waymarks  Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:54 pm | |
| Well, I have begun reading, The Gates of the Alamo, by Stephen Harrigan and so far, so fab 
Almost immediately, Mr. Harrigan calls forth the subject of early road-marks. His envisioned character is heading down the road from Bexar to La Bahia in the spring of 1835, and as the remains of the missions chain gave out, he encountered:
... the crosses which Fransiscan friars "had carved into the trees a century ago to mark the route of the Camino Real. Age had blurred and weathered the crosses, but at the place where the La Bahia road took leave of the old imperial highway the markers were fresh -- a series of pointing hands sharply chiselled into the bark of the live oaks." (pp. 20 and 21).
Does anyone have knowledge of early road-marks which they could share? Are there any which might yet be viewed today?
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