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Show - -he 0- Il'l(.U.ens, J.\. 'meet;il'lg was held, and it was decided. so r(,turned.. u·t·8. l)ar'Y ,to try to intercept the Indians. JanU3.1 Y 3, 18?O. 'A company of about 'l?lIenty-fi ve men £'1 tted up and stal"'ted to try to i:ntt3l"Cept 'the IncUana at the Iahreah. I 'e1ont a'Long as one ot tho number. '\fIe started late in the day and got to th h.ead of tb,e canvcn a.b,out da rk We crof1scd .ove r the high mountain ill ;h ,nigbt, an 1 a 0 the enOrl '\jaa abo\! t a fo 0 t de(::'lJ. it was \vi th o ",;'0", ('... .... , , ' difficulty that we a sc ende d t he f.Stepoet place 0 1. :"Tas 'well acquainted wi th the trail and went ahead Af"'Gar gettin;; over pnrt of the time tho highest part we atop:ped for sUI1per and rested for an hour or eo 0 'Vis paao ed li'illh Lake about 2 a. m, and 13top:pod aeuin for a 3hort time, fi.ndi 18 tl e anow quite deep in abou't 4 a. m • 0 dB.ylight placet:l Shor·tly after commenced our TIl<'3.I'ch and followed the Sevier River a short 'ie then wmt e3st t01Jft3rd upne r Ka.nab. tie had, to ta.ke tU!'1!lS , we ' distance. going ahead and breaking the road through tne anOt', as the la,ad horse oould not stand it long W'e arrived at upp er' 'Kanab a:c ab ou t 11 Some of ,the party p m, were exhausted on ao coun t of the s·ever1 ty of the weather and 'Were not able to pz-oo aed much fu:r.thar 130 VH3 camped for the :--emaJ,l1.d'er ot the , I night. January . !re arose early and' started southoast, but aftar going a few miles Ne became sn'tlsfied, that th Indians had not gone trJ.s vlay •. A aho r t council wat held and wo dec'lded to go back to the ri '!er e..nd I' f()11o' down the Sevier. We took our back track until l.ve reacned the ri vel" end fol1oved. down the' strea,m until about midnight, Whel"1 we Catl$ to a 'cftJyon lea.ding east abou t seven miles above Panguf 1;ch. Here vie stopped until daylight to aacertain whether any stock ld pasaed up this canyon 1anuary 6. At daylight we were out looking for the Indlan5 but we did net find We had an Ind,ian along 'wi tIl us whom any sign 0 they called Pangui ten. John \·e traveled north leaving I'angui tch to the west, and about the middle of the afternoon "ro struck the Indian tr"il. Ed7/?-rd Dalton" 'Who had cha rge of t,b.e company, and one or two others went ea e t to t}?e mouth of th canyon t e ascerta.in how' many had passed end how old the trail was. The rCf3t of the company started to the river to camp and decide on some nlan of action. Several were sick exhaue t e d on" accoun t of the cold. and hurd rra r ch 13efore we reach,ed' the river' it ,'{us re;:ported tha t there were Indiana to the southwest. So part of the (wmpa'l:V started it} It turned out .to be a pursuito false alarm. Th13 move had -1i vided OU!" company, and it wae about 9 p. m, before V16 nl1 As some of, our pa.rty ljere unwell got togethe"r. and thinking it uould Abe d:Lf"ficul t to Etri:re the right canyon in the 50 J1 . . f) , , ' night, campedo January 70 We got ttp we . about 3 a. m, and started on ·the trail of We· sent back 6iJl of 'Our- numbe r \·vho were sd ck Some of them ...re r-e qui t e bod, and. ! he!"d.ly knew whether they '?Iould all Ii ve t'hrough the niahto About sunrise a den ae fog came up, so thicl'i W could hardly see ouz .".ray. It wn.s extrGmely oold and the men and horses were as whi t e as the snow 0 We:to llowecl the trrdl ear.) t oyer the range o mountains between the east and west forka of the 1Jevier into the valley of the east fork. 'VIe had a terribly rough road, almost im paasablo in placesa We arrived a little before BWlsct and stopped a short tine to rest "{ie ha d f'oun d fe3h signs"-all along, al'ld the Ir df ana could have 'been only' 0. few hour-s ahead of 'Us. 'llhey doubtless had 500 or 600 head. of· cattle, 'moutly horoes. [ihile itie were eating the last, cz-umba of ou.r provisions, we were over'taken by a. small' the '!ndiro19o , $ I |
