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Show RESEARCH METHODS being planned the United States government created As part of Basin Archeological Salvage the "Upper Colorado River Utah of the of Miller E. David history department University that program Dr. was assigned the task of researching and mapping the Dominguez-Escalante Trail through the region that would eventually be inundated after that dam was completed. The research was accomplished through several jeep trips into As Glen Canyon Dam was Projec!." and river reconnaissances by boat before the impounded water covered the area. Almost every foot of the Spaniards' trail was covered of any part Numerous people partici and on foot, by boat during 1957 and 1958. by jeep, A. R. Mortensen, Dr. Henry Dr. Dr. in C. the research: Gregory Crampton, pated J. Webb, Dr. Kenneth E. Eble, W. H. Snel I, Dr. Wendel I E. Taylor, Fay Hamblin, and Earl E. Olson. Special help was given by Bureau of Reclamation personnel under the direction W. L. Rusho. That bureau helped supply transportation into the area by jeep and boat, assisted with the interpretation of the diary and route, and made available many excel lent photographs. Equipment used included jeeps, boats, cameras, USGS quadrangle maps and compasses. The project was the area basically an on-the-ground activity. For the November 3 diary interpretation Mi I ler and associates took a jeep along the established trai I from Wahweap to Castle Rock, then turned south across the open terrain to the site of the San Carlos camp, the location of which is definitely established. A very steep, rugged trai I was found leading down to the riverbank through a rocky draw. There was some evidence that this tra i I had been used livestock. I er Mil c limbed down the tra i I about ha I fway to by the river in order to test it as a route for horses. No attempt was passable made to ford the river at this point. On one of the river reconnaissances the lower end of the trail was examined. November 4 On the 4th, day broke without our learnin9 about the two had dispatched yesterday on the reconnaissance mentioned The meat from the second horse had run out, we had not eaten a thing today, and so we breakfasted on toasted pads of low pear cactus, and gruel made from a tiny fruit they brought from the river bank. This tiny fruit of itself has a good taste but crushed and boiled in water the it is way we had it today insipid. On seeing how late it was and the two ones did not show up, we ordered that an attempt be made to get the animal herd down to the river, and on the bank to another horse. They got them down with who we ery afoementioned slauqher the on great difficulty moun!s the injuring themselves because, hen they lost big rocks, they rol led down a long distance. some of a' foothold A little before nightfal I, the mixed-breed Juan Domingo returned asserting that he had found no way out, and that the other one, leaving the horse in the canyon midway had kept on following some fresh Indian tracks. And so we to continue we found a upstream good ford, and passable terrain on one and other s I de. deided un!il -168- |
