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Show 55 HAYillLIN AMONG THE NAVAJOES gince Navajo country surrounds that of the Moquis , the Indian always had to traverse Navajo domain to get to the Moqui Generally the redmen were not unfriendly. We have already Villages. considered the case of. George A. Smith, Jr., the son of an Apostle of Na the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who was kiU ed by been had Brossing the earlier than 1870, For sometime Najos ajoes. the . .. ssonares above River--generally at the old Ute Ford some 35 miles Mormons the future Lee+s Ferry:--and stealing livesto dc , perhaps from ace •• had sh. plished the Major J. W·. Powell, al'ld non-Monnons alike. men--or white by men from first passage thugh the'Grand canyon by a journey through Nayajeland, per the United States-in"1869--essayed this thievery to haps as far as Fort Defian, in the hopes of causing the Colorade stop. latter He ivi ted Jacob Hamblin to a ccompany accepted the' offer with alacrity. him; and of course, the Ashton Nebeker, In the autumn of 1870, Hamblin '\ttl'th Anrm-Gn M. Tennl, the Powell f three Elijah Potter, ar.dNathn Terry--all Mon3--; seems it since .unlikely ': t: party; and an Indian, probably an interpreter At Fort dialect. the Navajo that either Hamblin or Powell could speak of Navajo thousnads some Defiance they met Chief Barbenceta and perhaps - tribesmen. discussion since he had called for Major Powell probably began the that he rep He told them of the many animals they' had stolen, the trip. unless inferred-that t}y'cease resented the U. S. Army; and strongly Of course them. such thievery, the U. S. An would be sent against Redondo l-lesa to walk" older Indians , who had experien eed the "long Carson's of, Ki.t some 2 years earlier, <wished no repetition ending attack on themselves Hamblin,in his quiet way, told them since his own boyhood much peace between the of his time had been taken in efforts to keep Now many of the' young whitemen who had Indians and the'whitemen wished tOlG$$ sufferred loss of their animals. through this thievery The great Leader, on the Na vajoes. great River- and wreak vengeance other counselled the young men to wait until all had Brigham Young, failed. matter had the setlement of methods of obtaining a peaceable redmen the asked he and now He himself had always worked for peace; and their leader, across the iiver whitemen the tell what he should t.er seriously; mat The Navajos seemed to take this Brigham Young. their return on the white party and Barbenceta promised to overtake tri be who their many members of westward as soon as they reached was He did this; and agreement were 'not at the "pow-wow". of theRiver; and his tribesman south that the chief would try to keep them would be returned. that stolen cattle found among could%e . small settlement located a Hamblin It is said that in 1871-73, a usable road for wagons Riveroutlined at the mouth of the Paria of the Paria, to the Little C'olo from Lee's Ferry, near the mouth established a 'ranch in Houserock V.alley, just and radoRiiver on this road. Perhaps it BUckskin (Kiabab) Mountains, east of first used in _who 1873, with Lorenzo W. Roundy, was a small group Colorado rivers. Little the and Colorado the this wagon-road Grand via road Wash, from to have located a wagon Hamblin is said to the Colorado in 1873. th; btween St. George |
