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Show 163 preter and guide on exploring tours he was associated with. In April 185I Young personally led an expedition t o the Sevier Valley in which Barney Ward, Miles Weaver, and George W. Bean were the i n t e r p r e t e r s . 3 1 in june 0f the same year, Ward interpreted during an interview between Brigham Young and the Ute chiefs, Walker, Sowiette, Arrapene, and Unhoquitch.32 The following April, Ward again accompanied President Young on another expedition to the Sevier Valley.33 Throughout his l i f e , Barney Ward was devoted to Brigham Young, and his services were frequently employed by him. It would seem only logical that during their several exploring tours of southern Utah together, Young would have taken the opportunity to question the mountain man about his knowledge of the vast unknown regions encompassed by Utah Territory. As the governor, Young would certainly t r y t o gather a l l the information he could about the Territory he governed. As we have seen, Ward was very free with his knowledge and ideas of the country west of the southern settlements, and what more opportune moment could have arisen that when the two were exploring the country directly adjacent to t h i s t e r r a incognita. John C. Fremont also had an unmistakable influence on Brigham Young's misconception of the Great Basin geography. The report of Fremont's 1843-1844 expedition was damaging enough when he created a mythical mountain range traversing the Great Basin at the 38th p a r a l l e l in an east-west direction; but his 1848 map of "Oregon and Upper California" was more harmful than ever. While correct in detail for the areas he had actually explored, i t s main flaw was the inclusion of t h i s apocryphal mountain range, which he claimed t o have seen from the Las Vegas area but did not explore.3^ The range is shown t o be about four hundred miles long and was an extension of the Wasatch Range from i t s southern tip near Cedar City west t o tbe Sierra Nevadas. Along t h i s hypothetical range 1B printed the words, "DIVTDHfG RANGE BETWEEN THE WATERS OF THE PACIFIC AND THE |
