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Show 10 of tLe stran^ ere, welcomed them kindly and gave them food. They were elmple- windod and inoffensive, thea « native Yutaa, ready to puide the t r a v e l l e r s whithersoever they would go; they begged the fathers to return and eatabliah a miaaion in their midst, "" inter coning, provisions low, * ind no news of a route to the sea being obtained from the eavasea, the 1 explorers turned aouthweet and e a s t , bacft to S". nta F © \ At that tir. e Utah was considered too remote for a raieaion. The renion between Pimerfa, the Colorado River, Uueva .2 Viec? ya and Hew Mexico, needed yet to bo explored. So Utah remained undisturbed and the Indiana untouched by the romance and the c i v i l i s a t i o n of the e^ rly isissicns. The American Fur Traders. With the coming of the American fur traders to the vreot, the Red Hen of Utah again m*- de the acquaintance of foreigners, In the beaver country of the Utahs, four trading posts vrera eetablished. They were Fort Bridger, Robidoux'a two posts on the Uintah and Cunnieon r i v e r a , and Fort Davy Crockett in Brownts Hole, One of the e a r l i e s t notices _* I Bancroft, H. H. , History of Utah, p. 1?.. 3 « » MO- 10, 2 cs Chapman, N The Founding of 8p « nieh California, p.}$$. |
