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Show l8o FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. I waited as long a time as possible, but there was now plenty of snow. I started Jan. I2th, 1872. I hired N. Murdock of Provo valley, to take my sled to Heber City. I had not yet found any person to go with me, expecting to pro-cure some one in Provo valley, as there were a number of hardy, venturesome persons living there who were in the habit of going out for days on snow- shoes, hunting elk and trapping beaver. On arriving there I found Brad-ley Sessions, a Mormon Battalion boy, willing to under-take the trip. I told him all I wanted him to agree was, that if we perished on the trip he would agree with me that we would not grumble, but die uncomplainingly ; that under no circumstances were we to give up or turn back He said, " All right, I will stay with you." And he did. Brother Sessions furnished me with a pair of snow-shoes. I had prepared almost everything else needed for two before leaving the city, so that we were soon ready to start. On leaving Heber City we took the most direct road over the pass leading down into the west fork of the Duchesne, then down to the main stream intersecting the government road, not far from where it crosses this stream. The divide is too steep for a wagon road, but part of the way up had been used for carting timber down to a mill near the foot hills. There was a sled road some few miles out from Heber City to this mill. Brother John Duke hauled our sled that far with his team ; here we made our first camp, in an old house. I had taken from the city a large, strong dog with the idea of having a camp guard, as wolves and other wild ani-mals were in the mountains. |