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Show 178 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. sense, and if he felt to uphold him, he was a different man from what I supposed him to be. I wanted to know why he instructed me to notice how the affairs were conducted and report facts, which I had done and could prove all I said, and then treat my information in the way he did. The agent told me he did not want me any more and would discharge me from his service and forbade me going to the agency. I answered that whether he discharged me or not, I had business at the agency, and calculated to visit there whether he wanted me to do so or not. He replied that it was now late in the season and that he expected much trouble in getting his supply- train through that was now about starting from Heber City with flour and other prov-isions, and that he forbade my going with them. He then rather derisively remarked that he did not think that I would be able to make the trip, that he thought it would be about as much as he could do with the government to back him up, to get back to Uintah ; and hardly thought any one else would try the trip so late in the season. I told him there was not enough snow for me yet. But after a while when traveling was good, I would call over and see him. I had already studied out my cam-paign for the winter. Before leaving the Uintah agency, I had promised the Indians that I would return and do all I could for them. They wanted me to try and get the place of trader. There were many things they wanted that they could not get. Among the rest children's woolen shirts and dresses of various sizes. My wife went to work, with the assistance of some of our neighbors, ( particu-larly that of the Sisters Brower of the nth Ward) and made a lot of such as were needed. |