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Show The sacaton has often been lent qualiy n comparison such as call used. to we October 4, 1851 site" t.hough mayjrave been it tha t at 1- the Z_rs_t, wash from I - - came ; of which it is of excel- ,swamp and slough grasses "Obed hay'", ,, , . a rocky Sunset:"'-:"i'the- place po i.ntj I : think.: had : bit ·low for' the a near" where I was born". solid foundation" high rampaging .. down the ri ver , a or floods ' The second site ,J 2 miles west . _.- - of I times. hay Sitgreaves proba bly passed through, The, first at for with the sites- of the' future the two _----' mown .wa s on alluvial, land the near the;:porth and, ,the main-piver. junction of high floods, In "dry" a water came l ea,r:y have ; -to the gates of t.h e long since J wa,_sO¢d city---the site away a-nd f'Loat.ed Sitgreayes, Camp #11 was on or the', northe rLy distance below the site of. Sunset.. f ·and the ruins .of the fort rolled down the Little' side of the river On t he (5th some 6th of October, 1851, or , The- .rec ro : Sit ss ed the streann to t.h esout.h side.' graves, seem, to me t.o .make :. it clear' Descriptions given by that he visited the Grand i Falls. .of the Little Colorado [ and. the, rui.ns lonJupa.tki and the Cit- ! adel-)robably I _ne_; viciity of, ri vei: in leaving, the, or a little I be)-ow the junction : site of - t.he I to : Hountans skirt the (Li.eut., Lat e r with the Dinnebito vvupatki north, Lnt.o , National' Honument, and then the west the-region Joseph C. IV(3s, ity i.0f he Vegas Wash" who later was • I ( _. r ;l- ... passing through the ;,la ter by exp'l o red with -the and party foothills-of traversed ! I Wash, the went west the San Franc lsco \tJhipple and Beale. the Colorado to. the vicin- Whipple expedition of 1853-54). |
