50 The exact site of Mora is not clear. Mrs. Mogoffin refers to the settle-
ment of Mora, which may be the same one that Melgares has in mind.
Mogoffin, S. S., Down
the
Santa
Fe
Trail
Into
Mexico,
p. 90. Stella T.
Drum (ed.), Yale Press, 1926. The settlement was founded, apparently,
after 1715, as the diary of Hurtado, who crossed over the sierra from the
Picuries Pueblo and camped along the Mora River, makes no mention of
such a settlement at that time. A. B. Thomas, "Spanish Exploration of
Oklahoma, 1599-1792," in Chronicles
of
Oklahoma,
p. 14, June, 1928.
