Closing in on Kerlin's Well

In 1829 or 1830 www.upa.pdx.edu/IMS/currentprojects/TAHv3/.../Ewing_Young.pdf">Captain
Ewing Young led a large trapping party west from Taos, which at
the time was still part of Mexico, over the Mogollon
Plateau (now the Colorado Plateau) and west along the south side of the
Grand Canyon to the Mojave Desert. Sources indicate that one younger
member of the party was named Kit Carson, later to be
famous as an Indian fighter. The party reached the head waters of the
Verde River, which is very close to Kerlin's Well. It may well be that this was
the first European expedition to reach this area of what is now
Arizona.

My interest in Kerlin's Well stems from the fact that my Great-grandfather, Henry Martin Tanner, stopped at the waterhole long
enough to carve his name in a rock with the date, 1877. In past posts, I
have been reviewing some of the information I have discovered about the
location of the site and its history. Since my last posts on the
subject, I have found a lot more information. I am currently planning
another trip to follow up on my one unsuccessful trip to find the
location of the Well.
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