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Show 1·1 52 I III 1 I i Indian to take for 11 inspection" The Navthe whitemen that three to of their had been tribesmen ajos expla.ined s and were earlier white more time now two Li.ve killed some by men; which he had al.Loved an • score. demanded to affair; nothing now found it necessary to beat a hasty r.etreat toward the f'ord ,.. carrying the fatally wounded Smith on horseback for some distance beWith no time for a "burial", the body was left wrapped fore he died. in a blanket by the side of the trail, or perhaps in a narrow raVine if any, covering. The other missionaries hurried on te with little, It seems unlikely that the the ford to avoid attack, if possible. over-superstitious Navajos would ha molested the dead body; but even the The missionaries knew of the but animas of the desert did not share their superstiti.us fears. Some of the nes, especially the larger ones, were later collected A stone marker just north of and taken to Utah for proper murial. Tonalea Trading Post now commemorates this event. wild - times, before the colonization period, small groups of missionaries were among the Indians for perhaps months at a time. Some of tjese went far to the eastward in the Navajo cotintr.y, perhaps more for the purpose of establishing friendly relations with these natives than for missionary work. At later loan COppy-Tuba City Although Oraibi may seem to ha \'e been the "capital" of the Moqui domain:, Coppy (running water) with a number of apparently authentic ways of spelling the· name, was used for missionary headquarters by· the Mormons. September 17, 187$, Erastus Snow and party located a place about two miles northward of Moan Coppy; and gave the name Tuba City to the (The name Moan place in honor of the friendly Moqui chieftain, Tuba. water from springs stream of the small from running originates Coppy In Church reports, the two places were generally farther up the wash. reported as one, and under the name of "Moan Coppy"--the spelling of ·the name was generally thus in reports, but not exclusily. Moan Coppy, like othQr Moqui villages, was built long ago abop high bluffs overlooYng the farming lands on the Moan Coppy Wash below. Moan John L. Blythe and a small party of missionaries remained at Moan e.oppy when heunsuccessful Haight party of emigrants returned to Utah This party planted crops, trees, .and in 1873 (see ahead in this rook). vines at both Moan Coppy and at Moabi some 7 miles to the westward. John \i. Yeung set up a woolen factory here in 187.9, hoping to It,il Some OO ize the wool produced qy both theMoquis and the Navajoes. The x feet. 90 project spindles were installed in a building about 70 failed; but Chief Tuba zealously guarded the spindles later because . they were such great·labor-savers. Coppy by missionaries began December 4, 1875 on the arri val of the James S. Brown party. At the brink of the canyon they constructed a stone house, some 20 by 40 ft. dimensions. This with log houses was built to inclose a fort on three sides---the Permanent fourth side occupa.tion was confused with of Moan the canyon wall below. Capt. James Brown. Both (James were Brown should not -.m - in- James Pueblo, COlo., James S. went to Salt Lake CityJuly 29, 1847, following Brigham Young. a tout 60 River American the on to California, was at Sutter':s Hill on there in discovered 1848. miles east of ter's Fort, when gold was I know of no between the two men. remained with· invalided soldier$ at . S. in the Mormon Battalion reionship and came l 1 i |
