1866, Geological Report and Map of the San Juan Del Rio Ranche (Cincinnati & Sonora Mining Association, Cummings Cherry), page 106:
In the cajon of Arispe, below the town, it forms a considerable stream, and so also in the cajon of Ures. At intermediate points much of the waters lose themselves to view in the loose river beds, or are carried from their natural channel [...] After leaving the cajon of Ures, [...]
1875, Michael George Mulhall, Edward T. Mulhall, Handbook of the River Plate Republics, page 393
The "cajon," or valley of Pirayu, offers a charming spectacle, wooded hills rising up on either side, and appearing to close it in at the further end, where the Cerro Mbatovi lifts its head in the clear sky.
1889, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, volume 17, page 395:
[…] to r. in the cajones of the Jabesua, saying 6 days;
1897, The Mineral Industry, volume 5, page 211:
Gregorio Donoso V. has re-established the Volcan district in the cajon of Maipo by exploitation of the vein of Los Bronces, […]
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1858, Camel-Expeditions in America (from Chamber's Journal), The Living Age, volume 58, page 994:
Crossing the San Bernardino mountain by the Cajon Pass, they reached Los Angelos on the 20th of November.
1928, Southern California Quarterly, volume 14, issues 1-3, page 251:
Between the Missions of San Buenaventura and San Fernando, […] is found the 'Cajon of the Dead,' so called because in it the gentiles treacherously killed two soldiers.
1976, Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, Final Report of Investigations Among the Indians of the ..., page 527:
On both sides of the Cajon of Mechapa ruins are said to exist , and to be of the usual de- scription .
2021, Andrew E. Masich, The Civil War in Arizona:
[…] in the Cajon of Arivaypo [Arivaipa Canyon], a rugged cañon, eighty-five miles northeast of Tucson.
