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Show WINTER 2013 UHQ pp 4-90_UHQ Stories/pp.4-68 12/5/12 9:38 AM Page 11 uTAH STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETy THE POWELL SuRVEy possible starvation. “If we are compelled to Second Powell expedition, Green leave here on foot with but one day’s River, Wyoming, May 22, 1871. rations,” wrote John F. Steward, who was Individuals shown, from left: (left injured, “I do not know how it will end. . . . I boat) E.O. Beaman, Andrew should probably not survive.”29 Hattan, Walter Clement Powell; Arriving in Kanab, Hamblin and Haight (center boat) Stephen Vandiver learned that Powell’s supply train had not Jones, John K. Hillers, John been heard from for days and might be lost. Haight enlisted Charles Riggs to join him in Wesley Powell, Frederick S. making a hurried trip to the Paria with a Dellenbaugh; (right boat) Almon pack mule laden with relief supplies. The two Harris Thompson, John F. men covered the distance from Kanab to the Steward, Francis Marion Bishop, mouth of the Paria in two and a half days and Frank Richardson. “galloped into camp at full speed” on November 4. Less than twenty-four hours earlier, the supply train had finally arrived.30 The pack train had become lost, taking ten days to cover the distance Haight had traveled in less than three. Haight’s efforts impressed Powell’s men. Both Clem Powell and Fred Dellenbaugh made special note of the quantity of butter packed on their mule, saying it was “the first time we had seen any of this latter article since the final breakfast at [Green River, Wyoming] on May 22d.”31 Clem praised 29 “Journal of John F. Steward, May 22–November 3, 1871,” ed. William Culp Darrah, Utah Historical Quarterly 16–17 (1948–49): 249–50. 30 Dellenbaugh, Canyon Voyage, 157; “Journal of W. C. Powell,” 361. 31 Dellenbaugh, Canyon Voyage, 157; “Journal of W. C. Powell,” 362. 11 |
