A lithograph print based upon a sketch by John Mix Stanley showing the mouth of Night Creek. The image depicts a long line of mules marching along a winding road across a hilly, butte filled landscape. As he traversed the terrain along the Gila River, Emory often named certain landmarks he encountered based on his experiences, in this case, Emory named part of this stream (a tributary of the Gila) "Night creek" after he became lost along a miry creek at night. Emory also describes watching the mules adeptly climbing the steep buttes. [This lithograph is from the book "Notes of a Military Reconnoissance. From Fort Leavenworth, In Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers" written by William H. Emory, opposite page 60. See Ben Huseman, "Mouth of Night Creek: No. 28," in Eyewitness to War?: Prints and Daguerreotypes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848. Sandweiss, Stewart, and Huseman. (Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1989), 145.]
