John Russell Bartlett, described Sackett's Wells in his 1854 book A Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua: June 5th.

Some more experienced hands now set themselves busily at work in an arroyo, or place where there was a slight depression in the desert, marked by some mezquit bushes, whose freshness showed that water sometimes reached their roots.

Near the arroyo, where water sometimes finds its way, a few mezquit bushes have attained the height of ten feet, whose brilliant hue is most agreeable to the eye, amid so much barrenness.

[3] At the beginning of the American Civil War the mail stations were abandoned but the wells continued to be used by the Union Army and other travelers.

A 1925 newspaper interview with former state driver John McCain described the site: From Warner's down to the desolate stations of San Felipe, Vallecitos, Carrizo and the lost Sackett's Well, he hauled hay and supplies.

A mile or so from each station, the driver would sound a horn, and a fresh team was waiting, ready and harnessed when the stage pulled up.

The station at Sackett's Well was destroyed by a terrific sand storm after the stage lines stopped running.

Many of his books tell stories about different fictional members of the Sackett family as they immigrate from England to the New World and settle, then move west as the narratives progress in time.