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Show CHAPTER VII: THE SOUTHERN EXPLORING COMPANY 1. George A. Smith to Thomas B. H. Stenhouse, 5 April 1858, Manuscript History, 5 April I858. 2. John R. Young, Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer (Salt lake City: Deseret News Press, 1920), pp. 113-14. 3. Brigham Young to William H. Dame, 7 April 1858, Brigham Young Papers, L.D.S. Archives. 4. Journal History, 7 April I858, p. 1. 5. Lee, Mormon Chronicle, 1:158. Entry for 13 April 1858. 6. Journal History, 7 April I858, p. 1. 7« Lee, Mormon Chronicle, 1:158. Of the four attempts mentioned by Young, only three are certain: Evans in 1855, and Bean and Dame in 1858. The other attempt to find the refuge is unknown, unless Young was referring to tbe small, local searches made in the fall of l857> Lyman's recent activities in the Mojave, Fremont's 1854 expedition, or perhaps the attempts to cross the region in 1849 by Forty-niners and Mormon missionaries. 8. James H. Martineau, "History of the Mission Exploring the Southwest Deserts of Utah Territory &c in 1858," p. 3, L.D.S. Archives; hereinafter cited "History of Mission." This sixty page manuscript is a day by day log of the activities of the expedition. Ifertineau, the historian of the company, apparenty wrote this account from notes after his return from the desert, as a few lines are retrospective. See footnote 28. 9- George A. Smith to William H. Dame, 24 February 1858, (typescript), William H. Dame Papers, Brigham Young University. 10. Juanita Brooks, John Doyle Lee-Zealot-Pioneer Builder-Scapegoat (Glendale, 351 |
