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L il THE E Git GREAT A OUTDOORS F- F By By Stan Taggart Enjoyable eek end I Enjoyed I r r the th homey d dusty smelly wood tuff nit rodeo enjoyed h a Fourth of alon along with several EYan t wro m z tn-z mental hospital patients enjoyed a deluxe deluse trip 1 back to frontier latter experience time lime This ThU well we'll recount here Charles Guild vice fice president of ot Cranston Evanton Wyoming's Uleta County Historical Society It is a devoted student of that areas area's I pioneering past put Busy Mr Guild pent a recent week end k taking aerial rial photographs photograph of Uinta Coun Coun- countryside and wa t Kem Kern a few tew days ago ao watching a type wedding Prairie schooners are retracing the old Oregon Oreon Trail TrU between end and nd Independence Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon in celebration of ot Oregon's centennial The wedding warn wae performed per per- If formed darned at Kemmerer Kemmerer's Triangle P Park rk Inside the circle of WI wa sons gone Ons Charles Guild tooK UI us on en a atour atour tour of hie hi home country a mile fifty loop from Evanston Evans Evan Evanston ton to Beartown to Milliard to Tapioca to to Piedmont to to the Muddy stage station and then west wilt down US U.S. 30 back to Evanston The rhe site cite ot of old Beartown is le ten I miles mile south ot of Evanston van tol where 8 Sulphur lh r Creek flows into Bear I River lUver 1 I itt 1867 1861 Beartown was vas a small mall logging freighting and coal coat prospecting center centerA A year later the westward creeping creeping railroad line arrived there and the town became Inhabited by nearly two thousand assorted characters character Bad Dad guys scooted out ot of other states stales the by-the by the law would tag along with railroad construction crews good good guys guy with the you might plug a rattler The outlaw element soon I became so In Beartown Bear Bear- town th that t an on n November 11 11 1868 a 6 vigilante committee hanged I three of Ute thy troublemakers side aide sideby by old ll i Nine mornings later the dud dead mens men's buddies matched marched Into Ito town the my thai and ami opened fire at every movIng t tiny Ing Ing thing In sight light Legh Freeman reeman who printed his famous dameus Frontier Index newspaper newspaper per there was blamed by the ball bad men for tor inciting the hangings I Freeman rode wildly out but of town j Just seconds before the mob stormed Into luto his hll printing shop 1 and to the tae gro ground nd The Beartown riot lasted on Into the night and and anda a total of dead men were hauled off oil to boot hill the next morning The Union wasn't Interested Interested In In- in making a permanent station elation of ot Beartown and its cill sens lens eventually drifted drifted a away ay t to 1 Evanston Echo cho and such lIuch places 4 The Tho long Wei td rails dont don't even even pas pass 3 that spot ann anymore ore and lot a II trace of or the tau tough h town remains among the the- tall on that hat quiet flat above the tho river Guild baa has two sharp photos though 9 the towns town's narrow nar nar- t r row main streeT One of f em shows hows two t two bloody bodies sprawled sprawl sprawl- wI ed across across a bo board rd sidewalk Brigham V Youngs Young's company camped d on the Beartown site alte Sunday 1841 1847 ed Mr Guild as aa we rode on eastward eastward east east- ward across rolling roiling hills of aage sage Pr President Young had dysentery at the time from drinking sulphur water over In Pioneer Hollow the day be fore That bad water gave m more mort re than one on plon pioneer er called so-called Rocky Mountain Fever See there there- our guide added pointing down oft off a high bank For the next fifteen miles the dirt cUrt road pu passes es over the original transcontinental railroad bed Those stones atones mark two graves A railroad builder stabbed a cook and they hanged him on a wagon tongue Over the next neat rise was wal old named for tor a railroad brakeman who spelled his hie Hll JUl lard The English h Inhabitants of ot o burned charcoal In 10 a about thirty six stone atone kilns Charcoal was wu the tho hottest smelting fuel before before be fore coke came came into existence Three and a a. h hilt half lt of the the Igloo Igloo- shaped kilns are still un there there- there there-Re side a lone 1010 ranch On a bare bar knoll east Of of HIliard Hillard Milliard Mil Hil- liard lard wire wets 24 stick stick marked marked graves those grav tho e these of men who'd helped he dig th the first mlis mlle mile quarter long lona Aspen Tunnel They'd died of ef smallpox Atop a ridge we aw w w the faint taint traces ot of Tapioca station i a narrow rafted strip of dirt dirt which h had d been a shaped Y-shaped switching track and bare spots where a couple of at buildings had stood road bordering Also Alec we saw lAW high banks bank which Mr Me Guild explained Were they they had bad tops over them a century ago aco and were used to protect the railroad ad tracks from snowdrifts snowdrift More than one engine lost loat Its Iii air and rolled off oft here bere said Guild as we crept down a particularly parti particularly steep winding stretch of that original Uri line At the the bottom we e coa coasted ted into Piedmont a genuine ghost town A few buildings still sUll stand there though several including four tour saloons are long gone A beaten roundhouse r Just recently caved In Piedmont was named for the Italian home province of Charles Guilds Guild's grandmother Guild a a grandparents operated a store here and judging from a large ledger he still lUll has they ran regular regUlar regu lar charge chargo accounts with such uch customers as aa Indian Joe Joo Indian In dials dian Charley Charley- and Frank Indians Indian's In dlan's dian's squaw Many familiar whito settlers sealers names namos appear Inthe in inthe inthe the account book tooMy tooMy tooMy too My grandparents knew Chief well Guild told us UI Once a gang of tribesmen came Into the store I and threatened to burn grandmother grand mother mothe If she ahe didn't give them whiskey A young boy saw the belligerent bucks buckl and ran down the creek for help Grandfather and some lome friends rushed to the store and chased the Indians away Chief Washakie came to Piedmont Piedmont Pied Pied- mont upon hearing bearing of the incident and a asked ked grandmother r to name the Indians involved Knowing that the Chiefs Chief's punishment would be severe she he ho refused to tell him which bucks had caused the trouble returned a short time later with a bead purse made by his his' w. squa-w. aw He lie gave gave It to grandmother grand grand- grandmother mother as II an expression of gratitude gratl tude tulle and apology Charles Charlea Guild showed d us UI this red purse pUrle Ite Its now now of course coune a valued family possession History bug Guild knew the exact spots pote where Piedmonts Piedmont's significant events had taken placE place Ho no pointed out too too Its few tew remaining charcoal kilns and its three graveyards Mao also the heap of ot sj red timbers s T n tI I been blen a hotel My Iy grandparents grandparent's came out and ran this hotel about 1890 he said sald In a room on its second floor Butch Hutch Cassidy and his shady Rock Springs lawyer Preston Preston Preston Pres Pres- ton planned the tho famous Mont Mont- bank peller palter Idaho holdup The railroad bed roadway bed roadway veered veer veer- ed ed north now nowr and turn every very tur re t valued some ome new object of early we western tern significance Each land mark prompted a comment from well versed historian Guild A tulle mite short of ot the highway and twelve i mils miles east of Fort Bridger we came upon the locale of the bygone Muddy stage sta ta tion Uon From this gra grassy sy we we could look both east and west and see winding across the sage aage- covered gUlley and knolls the outline of the old pioneer trail Beside this faint wagon path and a few west was wasa a hole in the ground Our guide said aId It was a out dug pioneer grave A minute later we were on the highway f flying we west west t. t Guild directed dl di rested our attention to Ull still more boulders boulder marked marie graves ra 1 each with ltd its atry ot of brutality and frontier Justice We passed palled too the sickening sulphur springs spring In h Pioneer Hollow Apparently most mOlt writers writer of Wyoming Wyoming's history never pot get this far fa west Wilt said Hid our host holt ahe M a. he aimed hit his Chevy Chivy down the homestretch toward Evan Evanston ton I Because Beaus Uinta County Is le very vary poorly represented repented In books about bout this state People may not know It but settlers settler of ef this section carved their niche khe In history too s s s That storm storm torm stowed slowed the river down quite a bit bit says Earl Bagnell Dagnell ot of Summit County There still a few from Echo and Rockport reservoirs though Bridget and Marsh Marh lakes takes were producing well last lut week week before before rain and snow isolated em from the tho fishermen SC Lost Creek authority Glen Eddington Ed Ed- tells that at fishing Is le Improving on that stream Glen Gen has counted over a thousand anglers an an- glus between Hells Hell's Canyon and the Lost Creek C reek forks this past month And Ive I've seen a lot of deer too he says Run Aun Into a few every day t s s s The Weber River hasn't been too good latel lately says saye Gilbert Porter But Dut East Canyon Reservoir Reser Reser- voir volt Is le higher now now and better better T They've ben bon doing well on Stoddard Slough too The legal limits still sUll 10 trout but Gil occasionally comes across guys guys who have more than that The These e o are usually planted newly rainbows he says Conservation Officer Porter reports reports re re- re- re ports porta seeing some and and several s conveys of quail In his bla county this past week Hes Ites now working on beaver Weve been planting report a ail 1 local streams putty pretty ty regularly regularly from from Ga Gateway to to to Chalk Creek says Lee Rollins The Weber has baa re- re cleved about of our legal legal- size rainbows so far this springWell springWell springWell spring Well We'll keep planting right on through the next couple of months month C A Morgan man loaded landed a three- three from the shore of Echo Reservoir a few days ago aro I while his wife eight good trout C aNine e a j Nine deer were found In the Stoddard diversion canal canal all all allIn I In one bunch They got em all III out Then three bucks buckl were discovered discovered dis dis- dis covered floundering In the ce ceo ment lined waterway a couple of d days YI ago Two of them were I saved by saved by canal workers who I make regular rounds round rou dl each morning lust Chocking checking j lor lor- lor for stranded deer I t I Ithem I Were ore afraid dogs ilois are ure working on oar them again says Gil Porter Deer arent aren't migrating now and large arge numbers of ot them wouldn't fall all Into the canal anal at one one time unless they were being cha chased ed Only when deer are migrating for for about a month in the spring ands l- l do we ordinarily find them In the cal canal al Deer chasing dogs dog will be behot hot shot hot on sight light C Marjorie Taggart encountered a fat tat rattlesnake by her front porch torch a couple of ot weeks back When year old ld Shane ane goes outside out- out tide side to pla play now he be carries a large arge club with a nail naU in it STAN |