Blue Mountain
Elevation 3,500 ft.
Projection of Staked Plains. Winkler County's highest point.
Lookout and landmark for red men and whites. Indians found here fuel, sheltering caves and water.
Left artifacts and 138 mortar holes for grinding food.
On cave walls bragged of their prowess as horse wranglers, hunters, fishermen by using crushed stone paints to make pictographs 4 inches high.
Also gave story of a fight between two lizards. A directional sign told of a water-hole 9 days by trail to the northeast.
Pass is called Avary Gap, for John Avary, First Settler, 1880.
Marker is on Texas Route 302.
Courtesy hmdb.org
