The Bosque River begins near Huckabay and flows 110 miles into the Brazos at Waco (into a lake these days). The word bosque is Spanish for wooded because most of it is in the Western Cross Timbers, a finger of oaks that reaches into Oklahoma. The river may have been named for the Spaniard, Marquis de Aquayo in 1719, or for the illegal French arms trader, Juan Bosquet, who lived among the Tawakoni Indians along the river. There is an 1872 reference to the density of the post oaks recorded by Jim Peak and William Bower, who found themselves surrounded by Comanches 18 miles west of Stephenville. They escaped by riding into the timber. Handbook of Texas and Cleburne Chronicle