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Show 910 HARRY McDONALD For Complainant ( R. Vol. 12, pp. 2150- 2229) He resides at Highway Highland, California; is 77 years of age; since he grew to manhood he has followed trapping, hunting and prospecting principally as vocations. He has lived in the western country since 1866. He doesn't remember the year in which he first entered Utah but believes it was in 1868 or 1869; his second trip was made in 1888. His first trip into Utah was made while driving cattle from Elk Mountain, Wyoming, to Ft. Mojave, Arizona. The trip was made over the old pony express trail through Wagonhound, Medicine Bow, Rawlins, Bitter Creek, Saltwell, and Green River Wyoming, R. 2151. From Green River, Wyoming, the trail led to Ft. Bridger, which is on Black's Fork of the Green River; thence to Echo Canyon; up Echo Canyon to Silver Creek; south on Silver Creek to a divide between Silver Creek and the Provo River: down the Provo River to Provo. From Provo they trailed south, leaving the cattle In Spanish Fork about five days to rest up. From there They went south to Cold Creek by way of Parowan, Fillmore, RoundValley and near Cedar City, to Mountain Meadow. From Mountain Meadow they dropped down the old Virgin River at Beaver Dam and crossed the Virgin River twenty- four times on the way down to St. Thomas. R. 2152. |