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Show 283 who reside on the very ground where the explorers camped, with only one exception- Maadow Valley. They can trace the histories of their settlements to the first miners and stockmen who entered the area, but no further. The towns of Lund and Preston in the White River Valley are good examples. Although these towns were settled by the Mormons in the 1890s,(after earlier entries during the 1860s) near tbe White Mountain camp at Willow ^Emigrant} Springs and Dame's Eureka Creek, a knowledge of the 1858 expedition is not found in their local traditions. The exception is found at Meadow Valley where Dame planted his Desert Camp in 1858. The present residents of Panaca, Nevada recognize the deeds of the White Mountain Expedition who first settled on their town site. The first permanent settlers of Panaca were Mormons who arrived in 1864. One report claims that it was Urban Van Stewart, a member of Bean's company, that led these 12 settlers to the site of Dame's old Meadow Valley farm. Another account alleges that a former member of the White Mountain Expedition returned to Meadow Valley after ten years and retrieved a small box of flour he had cached.1 3 In any event, when the company arrived on the ground they found remants of ditches, corrals, and other improvements, and they were apparently aware of who had made them. The first settlers of Panaca sowed their grain on the corn stubble left by the v 14 original White Mountain Expedition and used tbe same ditches made by them. During its early years Panaca derived its livelihood from selling produce to the miners at Pioche and other mining towns which sprang up in eastern Nevada. As the story of the White Mountain Expedition was handed down over tbe years, it was supposed that the expedition assumed its name "because of the white 15 kaolin hills bordering Meadow Valley." Eventually all three White Mountain farms became the locations of permanent settlements. Tbe history of Panaca has already been discussed; however, |