Show exaggeration ON OF INDIAN ATTACKS IN WEST IS TOLD prof hulbert director of commission on western history reache conclusion after much research colorado springs colo historical Ilist orical cletion of the wild west appears to have exaggerated the alie number ot of sanguinary attacks by indians indiana upon immigrant trains along the old oregon trail nature and not the aborigines furnished most of the dangers encountered by the pioneers these conclusions have hate been reached by prot prof archer 11 hulbert director of the commission on western history lil story who has just completed the task of mopping mapping six all of the most famous old trails from the idis missouri river to the pacific coast in a space of forty miles along the carson river biver on the trail broken by the orty forty diners dead cattle and abandoned wagons were left to word the of odthe aba hardship they suffered in the trek for gold miners built houses of these wagon wrecks in the dys of the comstock lode discovery in nevada a decade later great rivers were not difficult to erbes cross when hats flats or rafts were fe secured but the thousands of little cutbank creeks riot not more than ten feet wide bilde were tile the dally daily terror of 0 the teamsters and delayed the caravans more than did the few rivers of width trappers and gold cold hunters suffered from indian attacks more than did the great immigrant trains in the era of mass migration to oregon between 1842 and 1850 the number of trains that were seriously molested by men were few the investigators found information used in the survey and map making was obtained from state and county curvo offices from the original oril nal surveys in the general land office at washington and by studying the diaries of old time travelers and pioneers in addition to the oregon trail the mip map reproduces the routes of the mormon trail fork from omaha to fort laramie Lar amle the nebraska city fort kearney branch the california trail from yale post office idaho to the coast the salt like lake branch of the california ornia trail the forty biners trail on raft river in northwestern utah tile the salt lake placerville route and the overland stage branch of tile the main trail from Ju Tu lesburg colo to stilt salt lake city |