Once out of the mountains and onto the Interstate the sunlight lingers. There is a rest area halfway back to Casa Grande. It's known as Texas Canyon because a family from Coleman County, Texas, the Adams family, came here in the 1880's, and soon after they were joined by others from Texas. They are the namesakes of Texas Canyon because, when locals were asked by travelers what was up there, they were told that there were just "a bunch of damned Texans up there."
Before reading this tidbit of information I opined that it was named Texas Canyon because, after hours of driving through flat desert we rose up to this spot which is full of boulders the size of Texas.
Four miles southeast of here at Council Rocks is where the treaty with Cochise and the Apaches was ratified on October 12, 1872. (Isn't that Columbus Day? the day we celebrate the white man coming to America?)
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