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Show CHAPTER IX: A HUNGRY INDIAN 1. Dame to Young, 3 May 1858. 2. Manuscript History, 19 toy 1858, p. 550. 3. William H. Dames to Wives, 3 May 1858, Dame Papers, L.D.S. Archives. 4. Dame to Young, 3 toy 1858. 5. tortineau, "Seeking a Refuge in the Desert," p. 250. 6. A good view of this desert valley can be obtained from U.S. Highway 93 about eighteen miles south of Dame's crossing. 7. The distances given in the accounts of Dame and Martineau often tended to be a little overstated. According to Martineau, "distances were estimated by the time of travel and judgements of distance combined." ("History of Mission," p. 57«) 8. tortineau, "History of Mission," pp. 57-58. 9. Martineau, "Seeking a Refuge in the Desert," p. 251. 10. Perhaps not so coincidently, the Paiute word "pahroc" is translated to mean "underground water." See Helen S. Carlson, Nevada Place Names, A Geography ical Dictionary (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1974), p. 185. 11. tortineau, "Seeking a Refuge on the Desert," p. 251 12. William H. Dame to Brigham Young, 26 toy 1858, Brigham Young Papers, L.D.S. Archives. 13. tortineau, "Seeking a Refuge on the Desert," p. 251. Black Rock Spring is shown on today's maps where Dame's Desert Spring Wells were located. 14. Ibid. 15. tortineau, "History of Mission," p. 19- Dame's "Journal of Company," pp. 12-13 claims the spring was west of Desert Spring Wells, but tortineau's 360 |