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Show 109 Wintey and Fort Robidoux. Robidoux leaves inscrip- . tion on sandstone cliff near present Harley Dome which notes his intention to establish the post. 1842 Rufus B. Sage visits Brown's Hole in search of fabled white Indians. 1842 Marcus Whitman and Joseph Williams travel to Oregon by Santa Fe Trail which goes through Uinta Basin. They stop at Fort Uintah. 1843- 1844 John C. Fremont leads expedition from St. Louis to Utah, Oregon and California. He travels east through the Uinta Basin. His published report supplies valuable information to emigrants traveling to the Great Basin and/ or the Pacific Coast. 1844 Fort Uintah is burned by Utes as fur market declines and traders leave the area. 1845- 1846 John C. Fremont leads expedition west from St. Louis through Uinta Basin to California. 1847 Mormon settlers reach Salt Lake Valley. As they occupy the Wasatch Front over the next few years, many Indian camps and hunting grounds are intruded. Utes use Uinta Basin and Tavaputs Plateau as refuge. 1849 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican War and enlarges U. S. territory to include present Utah. 1849 Group of Cherokee Indians winter in Brown's Hole on their way to California. The Cherokee Trail ( northwest of District) is, thereafter, used by other travelers. 1849 Bound for California gold fields, William Manley and his companions boat down the Green River, they cross the Uinta Basin on horses supplied them by Tumpano-wach Ute leader Wakara. 1849 Agent John C. Calhoun negotiates treaty with Ute people at Abiquiu, New Mexico. Later applied to all Utes. 1851 Great Salt Lake and Utah Counties created by Utah Territorial legislature. The Uinta and Duchesne regions divided between them. Present Daggett County is with Green River County. 1853 Sam Gilson, later a resident of Ashley Valley, notes on his way to California " three tough cattle ranches" in Brown's Hole. One may have been that of Juan Jose Herrera who dealt in cattle rustling. |