Narbona Pass

Narbona Pass (formerly Washington Pass) is a pass through the Chuska Mountains, an elongated range on the Colorado Plateau within the Navajo Nation. A paved road, New Mexico Highway 134, crosses the range through Narbona Pass, connecting Sheep Springs to Crystal. The pass was named after Colonel John M. Washington, who led an expedition into Navajo country in 1849, and whose troops shot the Navajo leader Narbona after he came to discuss peace. In 1992 the pass gained its current name, which honors Narbona.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narbona Pass
• Pages 95-96 - Sides, H., 2006, Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West: First Anchor Books, New York, 578p.