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The markers are in storage and new markers will soon be installed. Photo courtesy of Brad Newton
and several priests travelled
to La Junta. They found two
missions crudely based on the
missions in the El Paso area
and dwellings for the priests.
These structures were little
more than wattle-and-daub
jacales. The Mission del
Apostol Santiago, possibly
located on or near the site of
present day Fort Leaton, and
Mission San Francisco de los
Julimes, also near today’s
Fort Leaton according to the
historical marker (but in the
Big Bend country “near” can
cover a lot of country), and
several other missions were
established.
There followed many
years of conflict. Missions
were abandoned because of
revolts by the various Indian
tribes, slave raids, Apache
raids, bureaucracy, etc.; mis-
sions were reestablished, sol-
diers sent, presidios estab-
lished and abandoned. In
time, the different native
groups were Christianized
and absorbed by the con-
querors, the Apaches and
Comanches killed or driven
onto reservations and what
passes for civilization came to
La Junta de los Rios. Those
original missions are gone
now, but the work of the
priests lives on in the lives of
many of today’s people in
Presidio, Ojinaga and the
entire region where the two
rivers still flow.
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