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Show 117 Forces That Shaped Utah's Dixie traded between Santa Fe and Los Angeles, however, not along Armijo's route, for geography and the hostile Mojave caused traders to look to better routes north from Santa Fe into Colorado, then west into Utah through Moab, Salina Canyon, Mountain Meadow, and on south and west where they picked up his trail on the lower Virgin River and Las Vegas Springs. The result was an effective bypassing of much of Utah's Dixie. Still, traders and raiders had some impact on the region. Ute Chief Walkara and mountain men Bill Williams, "Pegleg" Smith, and others conducted frequent raids into California for Spanish horses.20 They and M Templeton, Lame Captain, p. 91. See also Paul Bailey, Walkara, tain (San Antonio: Publishing House of the Southwest, 1962), pp. 29-49. Hawk of the Moun- Indians conferred with federal officials near Virgin River in 1874. Standing at left is Maj. John Wesley Powell. Courtesy Smithsonian Institution. AS 0*+ >i< M* ' "-\*S ' **6*i k- .-.*•>• N.I-«..«!***.' •J* *y- \»ti- '*-» ' •' • ' " " • % • • • *:#• •••* ' - > .-;Vf^.. • £ . . . .v r ; 1 •* -Mi • :• .' &*&•••:: J - J *T . ft " % ' '.».*£,* ;?;), *z.Mt*n *Km WWJ i^ygjl %• nfifif |
