OCR Text |
Show 3538 1560 49 Dellenbaugh- D Went reports, and the early Pacific Railway Reports, and books like Patti's famous story, which is not supposed to be exactly correct; a lot of books of that kind, besides more recent books, like Chittenden; I can't recall them now, but a great many; I discovered Manly's book, Death Valley in 1849, which nobody knew anything about, and Manly went down the Green river as far as the Uintah valley in 1849, thinking he could go to California that way Q As to those matters which deal with the early Spaniards who were in this part of the country, from what sources what that derived? A A great many sources, including Castanada's manuscript of 1598, running down through almost everything that has been published on the subject of the Southwest. There were a great many; I couldn't recall them. Q Do you know the purpose of this Escalante expedition? A Oh, yes. His purpose was to get to Monterey and to connect up the missions of the Rio Grande with the missions of southern California. Q Was this map which appears in the fore part of the book written by you entitled The Romance of the Colorado River, which has marked here in red, " Escalante trail", is the location of that trail approximately correct? A Approximately correct, yes. Q Now, from what sources did you derive the information from which |