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Show miles The canyon then turns to-the northwest and approximately two trai I crossed Escalante the Here Utah into farther down opens Valley. bench from which the river and likely cl imbed to the old Bonnevi I Ie Lake Our Lady of Mercy the Spaniards could view the lake and val ley they named Timpanogos. of the off the Down to the northwest approximately a mi Ie, a trai I led would seem the It here near Somewhere river. to the down bench and than two and a half mi les. party crossed and then went west for better meadows south of the Here they again crossed the river and camped In the rather than to We have conjectured why the campsite should be here river. smoke numerous the the north toward the Indian settlements revealed by not did that is they The logical explanation signals up the val ley. would valor of better suggest part yet know how they would be received. The or of herd The thirty if to flee south be necessary. that forty prepared they horses and mules "fhis might borne out seems Indians and the by be the Ote interpreter too much of fact that Andres a temptation. minauez set out with Muniz to ;eet with the the two Indians Only the next morning did he send crystallize. word back to the camp to bring the stock north to the Provo encampment. into Caution may also explain why Si Ivestre chose to lead the expedition Creek. Hobble of instead the val ley by way of Spanish Fork Canyon before their fears could RESEARCH METHODS 1975, Jerome Stoffel with Ted J. Warner and Thomas G. from San Lino down to the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon Climbing the pyramidal red hi I I over and then up on the southern bench. the river just east of the looking the bench, they then worked down to cross the al lotted "somewhat west for and fol lowed the river On June 3D, Alexander worked working gravel pit more than a league." Noting approximately the location of the campsite it fro the south, agreeing it across the river, they crossed and noted S. of U. east Highway 91, some two mi les south probably was located just of Spanish The Fork. trip itself was two sections of the trai I ciable On made to coordinate the meeting point of might be any appre common to determine whether there disagreement. July 8, 1975, Stewart and Stoffel reworked their final section of the trail. north of the city of They then made a visual study of the countryside Ted J. Warner and Thomas G. Alexander that the Spanish Fork and agreed with Fork approximates the Dominguez-Escalante present freeway north from Spanish One can only approximate trai I to the Rio de San Antonio or Provo River. Stoffel guesses it would the Indian campsite (and the expedition's camp). Orem the of southern Bench, up from the river the tip have been located on Indians Is recal Stewart flies. encamped' on river and the mosquitos and At insects that affect whites. so bothered by the not bottoms, seemingly the campsite south of Spanish Fork north to from distances the any rate, unless perchance Hobble Creek seem fairly accurate, but not those beyond, River. Provo the distance some were up encamped the Indians -117- |
