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Show 648 deal of research work as to the historic matters they contained, particularly those books that dealt with the Colorado River, as there had never been 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 Famous Story, and a lot of books of that kind with more recent books like Chittenden and Manly's book, " Death Valley in 1849", which nobody knew about, " and Manly went down the Green River as far as the Uintah Valley in 1849, thinking he could go to California that way." R. 1559- 1560. He also studied Castanada's Manuscript of 1598, and running down through almost everything that has been published on the southwest. He couldn't recall them all. He knew that the purpose of the Escalante Expedition was to get to Monterey, California, and to connect up the Rio Grande with the Missions of Southern California, and the map that appears in the fore part of " The Romance of the Colorado River" [ Exhibit No. 13] is the approximate location of the " Escalante Trail". R. 1560. This information was obtained largely from Escalante's diary of that trip, a copy of which is in the Congressional Library in Washington. He had a translation made himself. R. 1561. " Q. In your investigation of Escalante's expedition did you find at any place that Escalante used boats? " A. No." R. 1561. He made an investigation from many different sources, of the highway that is known as the " Spanish Trail" and |
