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Show 9 after and. oolll.d easily be marketed in New- Mexico and New Spatn whioh eauaed a:tzy' enacted long as legisJ..ation against slave raiding there was a ready supply and I • trading was destined to continue. earliest times in New wider arcs. mQv.ing Thus,. were no into th ute Thi.s movement ficial, reoords demanding inconsequential.l market the one easily can see how from the wa.s it zeached Utah.' official region for expedi.tions , private indivi of period a over seventy- very di.;f£ieult to follow 'because, not of these ventures were not In kept.: trading i're,quent1y trader not only keep records, but that they cover.up all traces tled 11£'e no The trader was often the made it advantageous that type o£ individual and, therei"ore, harmonized well With the be.ing of- fact, gOVElrllIllent restric- tiona relative to Indian J activities. As of slave practice 2 continually northward lUlt.;U continually pushed five years. to prove Mexico, slave trading eventually spread into wider and Hill says that while there duals a who the of their disl1.ked roving Ind.ians. He' set saw in the Utes of the Gol.orado River area to livelihood, and often he would live with the gain. a profitable and suitable Indians for months at a time and in the Great,',Bain the opportunity .,4 While the information left by these. traders is extremely meager during the twenty-five years following 1776 all indications mate connection between the New Mexico s far north preserved as cemtral Utah. £rom several l., 82. 2Ibid., 98. :3 J. Joseph Hill, 4Ibid., 16., .from 180,5 .. Spanish to a rather inti- and the ute Indians who lived on we Spanish trading expeditions from New Mexico into the Great III, 5. But, Spaniard point find official l.n£ormation whioh serve to substanti.ate and Mexican EKplorations and Trade Northw'est Basin, 1765-18.53," Historiga.l Qugtirly, |
