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Show 575 then we knew we were in what is called Houserock valley, before we come to the Buckskin mountain-- Kaibab mountain, and we knew that this Houserock, as they called it -- they had a post office -- was ahead of us up that valley, so we started to walk. " And about five O'clock in the afternoon Mc Donald saw moving objects off to the left some distance, and he said -- Stanton said it was cattle, and McDonald said no, he says, ' That is people." He says, ' I have hunted too long not to know the difference.' " And Stanton said, ' Then we will turn and go over there and see what it is; if it is cattle, we can came there as well as ahead of us; if it is people, we may get assistance." So we went over there, and we found there was a man and his boy had taken up a homestead there, and was building a cabin. " We asked him how far it was to Houserock. He said twenty miles.[ R. 1406.] Stanton says, ' Have you got a team.' " He says, ' Yes.' " Well, ' Stanton says, ' Will you take us to Houserock?' " The man didn't want to at first. He said he was hurrying to get the cabin built before storms came up, and Stanton finally induced him, the next |