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Show 44 THE SHORTEST ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA. With regard to the Indians of the Great Basin, Dr. Garland Hurt, the intelligent and brave Indian agent in Utah during the Mormon difficulty in 1857, 1858, and 1859, and the only civil officer connected with the general government whom the Mormons could not drive out of their Territory, has furnished Captain Simpson with a very interesting memoir. From this memoir it appears that the Indians of the Great Basin, including those of the valleys of Green and Grand Rivers, consist of two tribes; the Ute and the Sho- slio- nes or Snakes. The Ute tribe Dr. Hurt divides into the PaJt- Utahs, Tamp- Pah- Uies, Cheverlches, Pah- Vants, San- Pitches, and Py- edes. The Utahs proper inhabit the waters of Green River, south of Green River Mountains, the Grand River and its tributaries, and as far south as the Na-vajo country. They also claim the country border-ing on Utah Lake, and as far south as the Sevier Lake. They are a brave race, and subsist princi-pally by hunting. The buffalo having left their country and gone east over the Rocky Mountains, their hunting this game in the country of the Arra-pahoes and Cheyennes brings them in continual con-flict with those tribes. Dr. Hurt says it is his opinion, from a familiar acquaintance with them, that there is not a braver tribe to be found among the aborigines of America than the Utahs, none warmer in their at-tachments, less relenting in their hatred, or more capa-ble of treachery. Their chief in 1859 was Arra-pene, the successor of the renowned Wacca, sometimes erroneously called Walker. Some of the superior |