BLACKFOOT
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north of El Paso Texas before you reach Alamogordo in Negro ED Canyon in Sacramento Mts there are paintings done in black an white showing attack on pack train.Man on horse with what appears to be a shirt of mail also a mountain lion standing with his head facing east looking over his right shoulder. His eyes are painted so you can see where he is looking.The legend told to my great aunt Elsie adopted into the Mescalero Apache tribe.My family followed the directions in the legend an found the paintings.The directions are as follows.In Negro Ed canyon on the side of canyon above talus slide is a ledge running to the head of the canyon,following it you come to a place where there is a small tunnel that you can only go through on your knees there is well eroded in the canyon bottom about eighteen feet across. The paintings are half mile up canyon [above cliff in bottom of canyon]on left side cat looking across to the right side.BE CAREFUL OF SNAKES AN PEYOTE CACTUS .Negro ED is between Ellis Wright and Bug Scuffle Canyon..close by the Langford Trail as shown on Delorme maps.This one of those storys that I have not been able to find it anywhere in written records,yet when I was there the first time with my Dad the things told in the story lead us right to the drawings.It is not a place you would just happen to come upon.
