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Show authorities and the Zuni tribe in 1848.106 The following year Captain Herman Thorne and Lieutenant Edward G. Beckwith commanded an escort of soldiers for James Collier, first collector for the Port of San Francisco, on his way to take up his new post. This group traveled along the Zuni trail towards Kolhu/walatwa to the Little Colorado.107 Collier had twenty-nine in his party, another 14 packmen (to look after 121 pack horses), and a detachment of troops. They were guided by another longtime New Mexican 108 trapper, John L. Hatcher. Collier's route, which veered south from the Little Colorado River, to the Salt River, then to the Gila and on to California, was noted on an 1855 map of Lieutenant A. W. Whipple.109 During the same period, at the height of the California gold rush, a few emigrants took the trail to Zuni, down the Zuni River (along the Kolhu/walatwa trail) and on to California. Several were killed in attacks by Indians (presumably 106. "Articles of Convention," and "Orders No. 41," signed by Lieutenant Colonel Henderson P. Boyakin, July 1, 1848, Hodge-Cushing Collection, Southwest Museum. 107. Foreman, Grant (ed.) A Pathfinder in the Southwest.- The Itinerary of Lieutenant A. W. Whipple During His Explorations for a Railway "Ro~ute from FoTt Srmth to Los Angeles in the Years 1853 «5c 1954, University of "OWaho«mT~Pr^_s7 Norman, 1941, pp. 15 and 220. 108. Foreman, Grant The Adventures of James Colliert First Collector of the Port of San Francisco, Black Cat Press, Chicago, 1937, pp. 1-29 and 53-57. Garrard, Lewis H. Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail, Bieber, Ralph P. (ed.), (The Southwest Historical Series, Vol. VUT Porcupine Press, Philadelphia, 1974 (first printed by The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1937), p. 219n. 109. Foreman, 1941, og. cit., p. 15. - 73 - |
