Show san juan utah by albert B R lyman 9 in the latter seventies when amany many utah people hid had a great curiosity to know something about the strange country off to the a southeast th 1 a s t I 1 of them there was in it these he e a elements e t tle ments a kind of daniel boone sort of man who had found his greatest joy jay in making trans trails j where no had been before and in the wilderness places where men could make homes he had gravitated to the most remote and dangerous frontier in the southern settlements and once with his family around him in his isolated cabin he had defied the hostile indians all winter when other families had moved into the settlements fo fc safety but the settlements had progressed only on hla his trail in south adouth beslem utah till there war no frontier sufficiently wild and faraway far away to suit him and he re solved to see what there was in the turbulent southeast south east corner though no one knew of a wall wa to approach the corner comer from roni the west the east side had ben visited and was quite accessible and this daniel boone man traveled i with his donkeys fr from om th the eUtah utah country into colorado and down into the region which he named amed montezuma valley in his m wanderings ande rings westward he had arrived at the mouth of a creek which he thought to be the outlet I 1 of montezuma valley arl am he give it the name of montezuma creek by which it is still known it was here at the mouth of montezuma wash that this daniel boone man peter shirts w aia startled to see the party of 25 scouts coming out of the hills or the other side of the river how discouraging he had traveled weeks and weeks to find EL a remote frontier and now they were treading on hs his heels looking for a place to make a settlement he crossed over with hi boat and helped bellied then to the north side he told silos silas S sith wha name he had given to thit wash end and what he had found out oat abou the country as far as what he called recapture ten miles down the river camping thee the e by old peter the scouts began ekalo in tri th country east of blue mounil Moun fl where some N big cattle cate com coatie Tie ie had lust just arrived safe as a they suT mosed sed from taxation ciofan smiths men pro pros mete to tai tv west and when ahn john jfhn biter fw f W to ihre the earthm erst arst wa a kopd on 01 ade wp lve t 0 o arther butle wash still bars b ars his nt n T and canh reef towers up to fewest of it the scouts d dc cid idl 4 th t fv V peters caan was vas the olaaf fo the settlement ement to lin be called moll moi te teT uma ma leaving leavine the harrigar Har rimar and davis families fere as r neu cleus for the colony to b ioina I 1 coined d in a few weeks by bv the com corn i tafv waiting wai tine at celar castl smith and the othes travel d bv dav of blue mountain DL dry r valley valev moab and green river ani and south through castle valley to cedar cita in october the remoteness s of this fcoite was quite fearsome to the tw families as they settled sett lel down t wait for a company which wan wa to tc be six months behind sch edul and even then to sono som other place to ston but 13 ut it was no sufficient sufficiently lv remote for old pter peter taking with him as much PS ns hi hia little boat would carry he floated off down the river to the west S seemingly bent on finding the most distant frontier still waiting to be explored if his story Is ever told it will no doubt be more weird than ohp th story of that ancient marriner who tried to cross the country a few years before and who escaped by bv the skin of his teeth on a raft down the colorado peter shirts was never heard from ifor for sure again the story is told of an old man I 1 who was found months later in the henry mountains too near dead to give his namo and his body was taken to salina for burial it may have been peter shirts who in spite of his love for the frontier is said to have been a very honorable man |