Editing Uvalde County, Texas (section)

===Early explorations===
On January 9, 1790, [[Juan de Ugalde]], governor of Coahuila and commandant of the [[Provincias Internas]], led 600 men to a decisive victory over the Apaches near the site of modern Utopia<ref name="Utopia, Texas">{{cite web | title=Utopia, Texas | publisher=Texas Escapes – Blueprints For Travel, LLC. | url=http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasHillCountryTowns/Utopia-Texas.htm | access-date=April 30, 2010}} Texas Escapes – Blueprints For Travel, LLC.</ref> at a place known then as Arroyo de la Soledad. In honor of his victory, the [[canyon]] area was thereafter called Cañon de Ugalde. French [[botanist]] [[Jean-Louis Berlandier]] visited the area in the late 1820s. [[James Bowie]] guided a group of silver [[Prospecting|prospectors]] into the area of north central Uvalde County in the 1830s. A trail used by [[Adrian Woll|General Adrián Woll's]] [[Mexican Army]] on its way to attack [[San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]] in 1842 crossed the territory of Uvalde County and became the main highway to San Antonio.