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Show I I rounded up and taken on the "long walk" to MPsa Redondo, where placed on so little land that they could not make a living in their own way. Disease, hunger, broken spirit, etc. thinned their were they were ranks until, when they were returned to their homelands in numbered between 7,000 and 8,000. 1868, they Later, when young bra ves who had not experienced the "long walkll wished to again attack the whites; but this was 'strongly opposed by the older men---to illustrate the point, a spirited billy-goat tied to he butted severely for some time, The young warriors were assured that their af res to fight the United States Army would be as ineffeetive as was the butting of the pine tree bf the goat. was large pine tree, which a with little effect. There it was not was a so little trouble with the Navajos after this time; but as it had been earlier. By the time of the arrival serious of the Mormon emigrants settling in the lower Little Gblorado Valley, Fort Defiance and danger from Navajo attack may seem almost "nil". Fort Wingate a little ffarther eastward were both within the Little Little Golorado drainage area. T tey and Fort Apache ( established a short distance over the Mogollon Rim to the in 1870 as Fort Ord) were all ready for quick action in case of threatened southward, trouble from either the Navajos or the Apaches its outlying new colonies The'Monnon Church, always concerned about in their rapid expansion to occupy the country before potential enemies might do so, or at least occupy the choice places so there would be little attractive country av.aila ble to themshould they come through had representatives from SkIt Lake eity in the four original col it, onies early in. June, l876---a little more than twe months after the These churChmen advised the building arrival of the first colonists. their at once for of protective forts safety against "Indians and others". The colonists complied with this advice promptly---Obed and Brigham City building of stone, and St. Joseph and S unset, perhaps mostly of cotton= wood logs which had floated down the River and lodged near-by on sand bars or as the floods receded. those "others" to whom the church missionaries referred? Texas cowmen were moving some herds into New Mexico about this time, the regions in which were located the Morsome of these came into Who were and (I remember, as a boy, visiting perhaps a few years later. groups of cowboys, perhaps 15 or 20 in number, all of them ara.. wit. 'hip-gun.', and seae perhaps wita carbines fasteneD to their saddles. They seemed friendly as they passed through our ranch; but their 1a. General Denaphan! s "Ged guag. I think was much like that used by mons daDDies" on,/tre Ri. Wicco<ttsid.r Grande). small gr.ups, passing the "Bosten Party", tw. tte Mormon colonies during the middle and patter part of June, 1876. We may note that Brigham Young himself was a ntive of New England, Had he heard from relatives of as were one or more of his wives. colonization of "The Marvellous Country" by New Englanders l' the (We proposed I |
