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Show 363 Archives. 19. Brigham Young to George W. Bean, 28 April I858, Brigham Young Papers, L.D.S. Archives. 20. For samples of press criticism, see Roberts, Comprehensive History, 4:405-18. 21. Orson B. Adams, "top of the Desert, June I858." Originally housed in the Historical Archives of the L.D.S. Church, it has become lost. Wheat, who reproduced the map in i960 in topping the Transmississippi West, 4:129 (opp.), describes it as 13^ x 10^ inches drawn on blue note paper with pen and pencil. 22. Barney, "Biographical Sketch," p. 3. 23. Simpson, Report of Explorations, p. 120. As Simpson followed the Mormon road in 1859 from Steptoe Valley to Antelope Springs, his observations and descriptions of the country are used on occasion for this leg of the expedition. See pp. 62, 118-25. 24. Ibid., p. 118. 25. The movements of the Iron County company in Steptoe Valley are confirmed by an Indian who resided in tbe valley in I858 at the time of the Mormons' entrance. In 1859 he recalled to Captain Simpson that "they came into Steptoe Valley from the east; had about 50 wagons Jjprobably only about terQ, and after proceeding north of our camp £hear present-day Ely] some 8 or 12 miles, turned into a canyon of the Un-go-we-ah fJSchell Creek] range, whence they turned back and retraced their old route to the settlements." (Report of Explorations, p. Il8.) 26. Edson Barney and George W. Bean to Brigham Young, 22 May 1858, Brigham Young Papers, L.D.S. Archives. 27. Bean, Autobiography of George W. Bean, p. 133• 28. Bean's Report, tonuscript History, 7 June 1858, p. 611. |