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Show 676 be very winding roads avoiding difficulties in the topography of the country. He was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, and moved to Mancos, Colorado, when he was fourteen years old. R. 1621. He resided in Mancos until 1900 or until he was approximately thirty- four years old and during that time he was in Utah occasionally, working in the ruins along the San Juan River for the Chicago World's Fair during the winters of 1892, 1893, and 1894. These ruins were located up Chinle Wash in White Canyon, Nokai Canyon and McElmo, and there are also ruins right along the San Juan River near Bluff that he has also worked in. R. 1622. These ruins along the San Juan River extend from the mouth of the San Juan up the river as far as you want to go. He worked on these ruins during the year they were working near Bluff and in Grand Gulch. R. 1622. Grand Gulch is located below Bluff about forty miles to the point where they would go down to the gulch. These expeditions were made by pack train. In 1894 and 1896 he was on the lower McElmo and Montezuma Creek in Utah. R. 1623. McElmo is the first stream of any size that comes into the San Juan below the Mancos about twenty- five miles up the river above Bluff. |