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Show 289 short time in l a t e October, 1858 and returned without going far for lack of time and water. The big push was t o be made in the spring. Bean was undecided whether t o accept Simpson's offer to guide him again. Counselling with Brigham Young on the matter in December, the president told him "he bad no objection if he could get ten dollars per day, one half in advance, but i t was not wisdom t o be tramping around, when he should be putting in a spring crop, unless he was well paid for i t . " It is not known whether he received his ten dollars per day or not, but he did guide the captain and his surveying party t o Carson Valley and back in I859, following his White Mountain t r a i l from Steptoe Valley t o Antelope Springs on the return t r i p , a distance of over one hundred miles. George W. Bean's l i s t of accomplishments is long and varied. Besides his periodic work as a guide, he became a prosecuting attorney for Utah County and later a probate judge in Provo for eight years. He a l so served in the l a t t er capacity in Richfield, Utah for six years, l a t e r in his career. In l86l Bean was elected to the T e r r i t o r i a l Legislature from Utah County. During the Black Hawk Indian War of the mid 1860s he served the Territory as a lieutenant colonel of cavalry in the Nauvoo Legion. In I872 he accompanied Dr. Dodge, the Utah Indian agent, and a delegation of Ute Indians to Washington, D.C. where he served as interpreter during an interview with President Grant. Bean was a t times a united States revenue collector, tax assessor, and tax collector for Utah County, a high priest and patriarch, a farmer and stockman. In 1880 he was sustained as a member of the Sevier Stake presidency in Richfield. George W. Bean was the husband of three wives who bore him twenty-eight children, but in 1889 he was convicted of violating federal anti-polygamy laws. The old scout died in 1897 at the age of sixty-six. 2 |
