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Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-27 | Page 13 | People and Things

Type issue
Date 1934-07-27
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title People and Things
Type article
Date 1934-07-27
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 13
OCR Text EOPLE OPLE AND AND THINGS By FRED BAGBY Winter inter Ride 1 few of the thousands o of who have pursued th the he speckled beauties in the lakes and streams of the Uintah basin and those who vho have sought recreation a amid id me the mec the c canyons and imposing peaks Ot Of the thc Uintah mountains have given givena a a tho thought to o on art ev even n knew the fact that h this reg region n of ofU Utah h p played y an w important part in the historic historic j journe journey urn y of o Marcus Whitman the intrepid mis mIS' who in fri the thc dead of winter ack jack in 42 rode from what is now no alla falla Walla Wash across the conr con con- r nent to Washington D. D C. C to save e Uhe the great Oregon country to the Unit Unit- td td id States from British preemption r There is n no marker in this section 0 or f Utah to bear witness to the pros e eat nt i generation that through the mountains and alle valleys s 's of oC this section section sec tion rode the redoubtable Whitman on o the spectacular and dangerous Journey J urney that saved Oregon In fact there is little to show where ran the thc n w off cut blazed through snow snow- covered mo mountains that enabled the missionary doctor to save miles of travel and considerable time despite the hardships and obstacles encountered encountered t red in an an uncharted wilderness over which the location o of the old Sp nish trails had been forgotten and were vere never known by most of the guIdes available Je in those e early times Old Fort Uintah J. J The only spot definitely local local- t ed on the Whitman trail through It Utah by the scant records kept In a dl diary ry b by his companion General Gen Gen- t. t era eral Lovejoy LonJo is old Fort Uintah i even then an abandoned Spanish fort located not far from rom the present site of Vernal General i 1 J Lovejoy says in his diary that they rode from Fort Hall lIall to Fort r. Uintah VIntah and from there to Fort i. i in what is no now nov Colorado and from 1 that point to Santa Fe N. N Ii M. M General Lovejoy notes that from Irom Fort rt Hall Ball to Fort Uintah was very slow because of the heavy snows which were plied 15 and 20 feet deep in Jn the canyons an and over the mountain passes passel And his record of the battle against storms mountains rivers of ol Ice and turbulent waters wild animals and hunger In the trackless wilderness wil wll- makes one winder r that human tinman beings co could ld survive e such terrible hardships as were encountered encountered en- en f countered alan along the backbone of i I the continent to the tIte open country coun coun- try iry of New Mexico ii Bat Whitman and his compan compan- Jon Ion made the journey and and accordIng ar- ar cordIng to records the cut off cut U tr l which he blazed through Utah's tr trackless wilds enabled him to reach hi his goal one day day- before congress adjourned and to place tace the case of Oregon before t C the lawmakers and executives of the land The hardships which he lie t endured bore fruit finally In a settlement of or the boundary treaty In ln a manner that saved to the union the rich and val valuable umble Oregon Oreon Ore Ore- gon on country which the great j Webster then secretary of of referred to as a worthless worth fl less leu u wilderness and wanted to to o trade tr dc for lor the Newfoundland fishIng fish fish- Is I's Ing Jor banks Traces Old Trail The late E. E M. M Ledyard who made an Jn exhaustive study of at old trails and historic spots in Utah and other parts Of or the west gathered information Which led him to mark a portion of the he e supposed Whitman trail from hat Lv is now the Wyoming boundary I line to old Fort Uintah but he did not attempt to map the trail further than tha this Perhaps some day some ome traits trails association with the me means ms to di dig out early data may be able abe to J trace acc the trail from Fort Uintah and perhaps some markers may be placed to 11 Indic indicate te about yh where re the intrepid Oregonian made his dangerous and IP sPectacular ride through the track track- less leu wilds of Utah Utah Utah's mountains
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