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Show CHAPTER XVII: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 1. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 5 (l8 October 1858), p. 342. 2. Jededaih S. Smith, The Southwest Expedition of Jedediah S. Smith: His Personal Account of the Journey to California, I826-I827, ed. George R. Brooks (Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. dark Company, 1977), pp. 180-84. 3. Replacements sent to Snake Creek and Meadow Valley probably brought the total to near two hundred men. 4. Simpson, Report of Explorations, p. 25 5« Ibid., p. 118. An Indian who resided in Steptoe Valley had informed Simpson of the Mormon presence on 18 July I859. It was then that he began to surmise the trail had been made by those who had evacuated the Mormon settlements in I858. Bean's confession was made on 10 August 1859- 6. Gove, Utah Expedition, p. 307, quoting New York Herald, 2 July I858. 7. Richard F. Burton, The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California (New York: Harper & Bros., 1862), p. 449-50. 8. Simpson, Report of Explorations, p. 6l 9. Burton, City of the Saints, p.450. 10. Wheeler, Preliminary Report, p. 61. 11. Andrew Jenson, Manuscript History of Panaca Ward, L.D.S. Archives; Ruth Lee and Sylvia Wadsworth, comp. and ed., A Century in Meadow Valley, 1864-1964 (Salt Lake City: Panaca Centennial Book Committee, 1966), p. 1. 12. Juanita Brooks, "A Place of Refuge," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 14 (Spring 1971), P. 22. 13. Stout, On the Mormon Frontier, 2:655n. This is an editorial comment by Brooks. 14. Jenson, tonuscript History of Panaca Ward. 380 |