Wow! Very interesting and that makes a lot of sense about the strategic implications of the crossing. It also reminds me of a trip my parents and I took out to New York one time. We were driving down a road in the area of the Erie canal (the tourist site) and found ourselves on an old road along a very large ditch that had a well worn path next to it. We figured it had to be part of the original canal, but it had faded into somewhat obscurity much like your ford with the fancy bridges going right over top of it.
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Ohhhh. How cool!
The bridges of the Colorado definitely took the strategic impact off of several places. This is now just a beautiful park that looks like anything but a serious battleground.