Pegleg Crossing
​on the San Saba; about 1 mi. NE 

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Marker Text: An hourglass-shaped pass through the hills were McDougal Creek joins San Saba River. For years a favored Indian campground, it entered written history, 1732, as site of Spanish-Apache battle.
       Saw passage of adventurers, mustang hunters, Indian fighters, German settlers, gold-seekers.
     Probably named by landowner Wilhelm Harlen for one-legged land commissioner T.W. Ward.
​     Crossing became station on stage line. Gained notoriety for many hold-ups that occurred at "Robbers' Roost" (1 mile west). Pegleg served in later era as crossing on Great Western Cattle Trail. (1970) 

Marker No. 3976

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker 

Geographic: 30.869659, -99.599480

Location: on SH 29 ROW, about 10 miles southeast of Menard