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Show CHAPTER XV: A PLAN FOR PEACE 1. tortineau drew two very similar mapsr-a large one on a scale of ten miles per inch and a small one on a scale of twenty miles to the inch. It was the large map, entitled, "Chart Showing Explorations of tbe Desert Mission," fey Martineau, that Dame took to Provo. tortineau's "Chart" is now deposited in the L.D.S. Church Historian's Archives. The smaller map, entitled, "top Showing Explorations of Desert Camp," is generally less detailed; however, it does show the position of Rose Spring in present-day Lake Valley which is absent from the "Chart," and it includes extensive "Explanations" describing the nature of the country. This map, dated "Meadow Valley, June 24, I858" Is now deposited in the Archives and Manuscripts Department of the Lee Library, Brigham Young University. 2. This account was probably Dame's "Guide for the Desert Camp." Typescript copy in William H. Dame Papers, Brigham Young University. 3. Stout, On the Mormon Frontier, 2:658. Entry for 3 May I858. 4. Roberts, Comprehensive History, 4:374. 5. The party consisted of: Amasa Lyman, Robert Clift, Ira Hatch, Freeman Tanner, John D. Holladay, David H. Holladay, Marion Lyman, Henry G. Boyle, Walter E. Dodge, William G. Warren, torchs L. Shepherd, Cunningham Mathews, Howard T. Mills, Henry Jennings, Fred T. Ferris, Taylor Crosby, Norman Taylor, Harvey Clark, William H. Shearman. (Lyman, Diary, pp. 111-12. Entry for 3 April I858. ) 6. Lyman, Diary, p. 115. Entry for 13 April 1858. 7. Ibid., p. 117. Entry for 17 April I858. 8. Manuscript History, 22 toy 1858, p. 56O. 375 |