| Show UTAH LEGENDS LEG ENDS PIONEER S I v of oC the Ihl misfortunes of oC II a III an O 0 n I tint h as tho lh c I Ii lit i t h ng and feeding t I J j s In different eras erns Is I p tin I ot of one race make makeI I I y I Ion on the ra rare e that hat n I I of oC the tho veil r HUI ns as ne new pea peo 0 s g o r the ancient homes of f II I t I each In Its la I b li li Original Inhabitant 1 r f t III and indeed nil all the live suffered such fate fute e flan t 11 1 deal about the tho plo pic It that resulted hr the t I enjoy enJo We VI lo I rat rs r first American InhabIt n I occasionally that of I suggest t I er 1 L J na 1 f I 1 halls SU tr It earlier r J r and miners rs r lit II n n time meas nil as men j d Fen re the Utah chiefs who tor t f I of and on an the shores or of Great I LA lake i I Ih 1 ke ailing ar arc j thought they were wro the I Dille at F I t still more II I I Ic th tr r ri as In uh rr t c OJ k f 1 have been be on n to tok toI r from k tim I totem d from tho south C 11 W tr py M who told such lIuch tall tales 4 II l j ps In eo tho h lands ar ral 1111 our ur fathers toll told d a 1 I I ro n ag when th they first n il 4 r tl the r roll about Ilk like n a Itt Th e are water nt at flack Dna Rook Rock e tn n I tr r I tippers apP ra Who carne calM here a Wit With whom Utah M 14 ob Jim memory than Wi ft h n who hook o lain rn Into told Iho Young It oer out n nr Ihn nto the tho Ile I known amity nil as n nnnie and t for Cor his prophecy that hero thero never neer would nn an of oC corn cornor cornor or n a kernel of wheat grow row here her AND WEBER Peter Skeet Ogden I is only IS as the man after r whom the can canyon canyon yon Is named while hll John Web Weber r la III forgotten except that he lives In lime tho name of at Weber county aunt and lIHI Weber cnn can canyon yon on Ito once WM was It a powerful trapper In these parts who operated In Marys 11 river cr nn and afterwards suffered abut oration of oC the name ho he gave It IW by the ruthless who wc nest t with Fremont Fremon They knew not his hiM Indian brIde Diary and how he had tenderly named the river far Cor her years before so the they wrote Hot its name namo down ilK as Humboldt anti It has roo no In 10 token ot of the tho fiat that time the were careless of their writ welt written ten records and of at what n Il posterity ml ht thins ot of theIr work Captain J Ashley hley Is another almost forgotten n He once camped wIth hum hili 1 G trappers on Lake whIch ran rail nut to the Great Snit Salt Lake through the Utah outlet amulet This wan Willi In the Ihl early twenties and after too ho had trap trapped pM ped out nut Lake ho moved ou up the Duchesne anti his hili nome name for Cor the lake Jake seas W A forgotten whilo hila the tho permanent settlers chose chole the tho name of Jordan for tor the tho river rIer he was thorn when the arrived hl his name is III preserved In the titles title ot of Ash Ie Icy valley nil e nn and the tho fork of time the river Smith was another of oC the tho first western e tern who slept on Utah colt 1011 and acquired Intimacy with the mountains and streams or of limo tho ills trio Is It a name that hUll hue been overlooked hn he was of the kind who think not of lC records record To o him should hould go the glory of oC the lust trip to 10 Lon 1011 Angeles over ner the tho Salt Lake Laks LA Lan Pagan route rout ltd It started out nut In 1624 with II a largo outfit and ended hIs trip the next spring hy by drifting In Into Into to Tooele valley almost deal dead and with I nearly toll nil toll hl men man and animals hur led Ild on an the but with t the tho honor hOllor honorof of oC belo being the tho first white man to cross I the hI Sierras curiously do doing In It train Cram the western aide coining east TUn MORMON MOmON PAT DIm s The Mormon ndell tC owe Smith n a token ot of c esteem mad regard for his hl trip theIr first trip pot pOll shut and the route On his hili way back to Utah from the west est Smith tell In with KIt Carson CaTIon trapping along tho Iho Nonda rivers lIe gave 1119 him U a map of oC the southwest route and Cur Curson son eon gave e It to Ogden who ho he In turn tell In with while searching for Cor beater Ieter told the tho Marmon settlers about it II and It was this Information whIch was their guide on the trip across In the summer of oC S 11 when u 16 young men left for Cor CorSan forSan San Bernardino to purchase milk cows for th the settlers Ot Of PeR Peg Leg Smith who lived on hear Lake before the permanent set tiers came II a goal story torr was Wal once told ho writer b by Young Jr while o on n hl his laet hunting and fishing trip to the Big Horn Born basin buill four years eau ngo It hn had to do with the Rear Lake monster and It may he news new to Utah renders readers thAt such luch A quiet body of at water ns as Bear Lake Ink wan once Inhabited wIth Ith its 1111 monster ju just t the sums as the tho tabled ms of oC the Norse Noru legends This monster had 1 n habit ot of coming out of at the water r dragging down hapless Indiana who came to bathe In It PI Peg Leg Smith on one day met n a band of oC those Indian riel riding III p pelt JI melt mtH RII away from Crom the Inks They told him the monster hAlt hod on one ot of their number and the tho crafty crAtty trapper saw sawa a 11 way TIt to turn the fear oI of the Indians Into grist to fo mill Ito them and fall Cull of logic logt was the tale ho he told lold them ot of II a manor r In III whIch to do away with lIh the monsters appetite for Ills advice urns In effect that they teed the tho monster on other othOl meat ao S that he would not be bea a If IC lit at nIght Il a leg of venison lL n a shoulder 1 of willi ss Ill mutton mullan should bo be on an Iron prong IIron which Smith would furnish them the mon monster muter ster would eat thin and sleep through the days toe ho hullana accepted the advice and Ild time the lain IO goes II rn In that Pot II Leg Smith dill did very Ir little hunting In III the that followed limit But gradually ho ha wore a 11 path down to the tho edge edre of oC the lAke ct every rr few nights he drew In the tho long line and unhooked a plea tea feast t of n or It a Juicy julei portion of oC mountain sheep sh II There lire are many tales of SnIt Salt fake valley that hook onto the older Inhabitants of oC wham we know so little Witham IL II oldest son lion of oC hailer Heher C Kimbell was Vas one of IC the live spirits tit of the earl early lilt day life liCe afield anti on horse back I lie tells to th the writer n II number ot of I dales which lire are worth the telling mere merely I I ly as traditions and data Is 18 not at hand to establish their accuracy In OLD OID SPANISH 10 nT One deals with Ith an old SPAnish fort rort that once onee on the Jordan river on II a plot Ot of grout ground that funned formed the southwest corner of the first flut city plots l gut ot the tal tale Crom C n named Ohio who wall swami his Interpreter to the tho Indians who the emigrant trail on which Kimball dId guard service at I the hind of a company of at Utah militia t tal said al that I n Spanish h settlement seas waa hero b by Puebla who engaged lu In surface mining at and packed the ore oro to tn tin I the Ih barks of oC burro from Crom when It II ii I I taken south to Santa Fe 11 unit un on d 1 I Into exko or lit at l iet Inn tI 1111 l t 1 I In wagons nM rito 1110 1 u I Ithe the tort on Ih the I h I I n II I I pointed out to Dr r l m where ho had Ic a tan IJ I ithe the r Navajo na had wiped It out 1 years the coal m When th the ell Si II it HI d III 0 nt Who Gibe came to 10 11 r Kimball and asked d for tor the southwest city lot It Il was n a swamp with a sand ridge on one aide and Gibe said Mitt he ha wanted It It was 1111 his birthplace lie immured It nobody else elle wanted It II and afterwards afterward dug up the ot of the old oldfort tort fort taking out 1 a small mall S Spanish safe which bed been burled From this hn hI some Home coins follI and gays Vt Mr tt Kim Kimball Kimball ball one he hc up In n a gold gohl coin of oC the of J 0 lived here years after the settlers UIrl carne lie fie married II a girl whoa who clime came with there IhlI Sally Luce and Ur Mr Kimball t thinks that their de descendants are living 1 fe whore hute 11 In th the west today as thin th lOll Iad several children before he be lost track of oC then asked to name the old alII airmen his he knew Mr r spoke min n an 1111 Incident that shows how get It its name nam and Incidentally further the wa wander arc Ill who ho carne tUn here lie says Y that on the flat where Ogden now stands t to 1 brothers named Goodell owed l i h hanI nail anI RO goat ranch flip h ry l I IO u O Ogden t n flats ten 11 II I I ni III 1541 Mr Kimball was sent lJ by to for th the ranch an the animals In doing so he be teamed from alum I hi Ih they had It from th Ih 1 III who Irle I I ma J te fr err Ise fill hot 1101 lit littin tin t flit I drone lm II 11 in III eu to tI the i 1 here thc lieu 1 ii n 11 ne u 1 t hur h II h I h t e Ire II I f I I s an old overland I wh who J pt I mil through lIk Inke t tie sr f u u g 1 Its nn In the 0 ht hI h hn hi vp I r I ii so tiller fl t of t hl 1 rat 01 thi I I II I r nit I n Ili I In I IH tr H 1 n It fu 0 I lIt t I I i I sl I I nl I I 1 1 g gI I L trl 1 ot at horses roamed th the I In the Is Ju b by old all settlers Col Cole 01 e Kessler f o oC Ih the National uarl t l t recalls um 1111 n m incident In ho a 6 brother ot of ills his tried to ride II a stallion lie hat had roped on the inland anti and Wit was killed while trying to master him lu III the The only buildings In Utah before the settlement were ere In OK de den canyon where Peter Pelal Skeen Olden Ogden 1 halt 1 built him n II dugout and n cabin as 11 well III as a stockade fort Cart to 0 protect from Indian Mr Kimball recalled called other of DC the mountaineers There Ther was 41 Barney Ward who dealt In tobacco tobro and nor and who drifted doan do from the north Jim er from whom hom the Hie Mormons taught Fort Bridger to keep leep its owners ownen r and from up tile the Indian tribes tribe to continued hostility The British Columbian traders worked down here herf In III 1149 with sugar ular whisky and tobacco At that time t nn th Ih n Fur JoUI company f Fi 1 Ii t ii I rive and It its ant agents antII II h I it d I Ili 11 men Jill ps BAdgeR It I a II r i 1 t J i Smith fasces i h 11 i s t In l 1 u Ii w I r Dap and tw two Frenchmen named 1 luJ an and Up Il al Fort J Ja k was aM I fl cud Slink WU R a RII phi II rn I nil II a ail 1 I d 1 tn I rr than to io n lilt KI I Ir rut left Ifft hl I f d tl I I Ih westward i lit d wr tit n n 1 wiped out outI I if hI n 1 11 ho camped n 11 tho th U it linot 01 U f i iThe I The era of the thA trappers fr was from Crom CromI I lain O to tn In ii III ti II they Ihy all w III h ii rr tr It Iti ItuS i uS i 1 1 1 1 1 ii n 11 In n I rn 1 I lin Ih t I lift I Iri I ri 11 th Ih t I It If Ift t l f 1 gt K 1 I I 1 i IJ h it 1 I r i iship r I ship t for the i I r oj Oregon nn n amid Wa sae of l t n na cue 1 until Brig Brigham ham hamna Young matched hi his Judgment on and faith ralth against th the skill or of the tho and hE would fight I t nut here with the courtly despite the Iho gr greater allurements allurement ot of the C coast t ani and the Th The was 11 not without Its opponents Samuel who 11 wis HI not true to hi his p ollo ami his hill tru trust t tan an and therefore Is II known hut but little Cur wood In memories QC of otter oIlier amen plead pleaded ed 81 with Brigham to come on to III Stin It o bay where he hail n 11 strip of oC land for fol II a city It where oak oakland t tIan land Ian now stance On the refusal Bran Brannan n nan bAck established 1 hi his colon lets IIII from the Brooklyn at al Stockton and afterwards afterward I Is said to 10 have haH drunk tl In death 1111 h in III San 1 after milk mask milkIng maskIng Ing 1 a fortune selling Cron a 11 tract or of land h he bought 1111 t n nb b money on the ate of Ir flak Ihl land Brannan rettI el the Brannon boys who told wr were Ih the first 1 workers N In the Ih geld Id nines and tired mn m Io Ioto to latent nI Oakland t teal r I deserting hl his p per le If and the th faith h he had o I Ito t hold holl Ip In nr I Ii to n tr ft In the Ihl westward rl movement could 11 hair hll betel a bt big r In western N lOrn hi tort tor had hll he known n hr 11 in getting but II as It t I h he I is Cd among Ih the COI forstl ui names I hr cause CAUM his hili Crl nl dl did 11 fat by him to put lute IIa deeds on r l after he h went bark on them There Theore I le little kno known it ut there Ulah M Ir n nu ought ht to 10 1 he 0 known before tore tho Iho m merles tIC of those ilia 11 It knew III In fade Into CM I r mi l 1 with Ih the oIt f the l I II I I n I Iv o ar are I I II In t tIli Ili I n It II I till Iori r IW i b 1 1 i I 1 th n m Ih t r o ti 1 in I mil II t w wc 1 In 11 I I c I 1 f I t SQ as taint faint n a 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