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Show [ Qompl . ( Ubdi Bxii ) . 14 ] ; ( "Freeman Freeman 'Frocinan Frocinan ) 445 in 1849 , ( " 11 ) ( ithi-stary ithistary ) , of ( Freeman's Freemans 1'recluall's 1reclualls ) Expedition in the West ; ( "Life Life ) ( -of of ) ( George Goorme ) Armstrong ( Ouster Custer ) . " In the preparation of these books ( he lie ) did a ( gi'gai gigai great ) deal of research work as to the historic matters th ( < ( ) y contained , particularly those books that dealt ( witli with ) the Colorado River , as there had never been ( very very- very ) much written about the river before that . He , , therefore , examined a great many original sources such as Government Reports , the early Pacific Railway reports and books like ( Patti's Pattis ) ( Famous Fainous ) Story , and a lot of books of that kind , with more recent books like ( Chittenden Chittendeu ) and ( Manly's Manlys ) book , ( "Death Death ) Valley in 1849 , " which nobody knew about , and Manly went down the Green River as far as the ( ITintah TJintah ) Valley in 1849 , thinking he could go to California that way . ( R . 1559-1560 . ) He also studied ( Castanada's3l'anuscript Castanadas3lanuscript ) of 1598 , and running down through almost everything that has been published on the southwest . He ( couldn't couldnt ) recall them all . He knew that the purpose of the Escalante ( Ex- Ex ) pedition was to get to ( Monterey -Monterey Monterey ) , California , and to connect up the Rio Grande with the Missions of Southern California , and the ( map inap ) that appears in the fore part of ( "The The ) ( Romance Roma-nee Romanee ) of the Colorado ( River" River ) [ Compl . Exhibit No . 13 ] is the ( approxi approxi- approxi ) ( mate inate ) location of the ' ' ( Escalante "Escalante Escalante ) Trail . " ( R . 1560 . ) This information was obtained largely from ( Es- Es ) ( calante's calantes ) diary of that trip , a copy of which is in |