Covered Wagon Women, Volume 9 by Kenneth L. Holmes

Author:Kenneth L. Holmes [Holmes, Kenn Eth L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780803274778
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 2014-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

1There is a short biography of Isaac N. Rhyne in An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County (Chicago, 1889), pp. 612–13.

2An excellent summary of tis route is found in Milton R. Hunter, “The Mormon Corridor,” Pacific Historical Review, VIII, no. 2 (June 1939), pp. 179–200.

3Covered Wagon Women, vol. IV, pp. 169–207. A new approach to trails in Utah is covered in William B. Smart, Old Utah Trails, Utah Geographic Series (Salt Lake City, 1988), no. 5, passim.

1This own was called both Dog town and George town. It was later changed to Glenville. Lilian L. Fitzp a trick, Nebraska Place Names (Lincoln, 1960), pp. 42–43.

2Near the con fluence of the North and South forks of the Platte was a famous ranch named Junction House. It was thought of as being halfway between Omaha and Denver. Merrill Mattes is glowing in his description of the owner of the ranch, Jack Morrow. The Great Platte River Road (Lincoln, 1969), pp. 276–277.

3“Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him, and he with me.”

4See the “Table of Distances” for the stage line in Covered Wagon Women vol. VIII, pp. 11–12.

5The black cottonwood tree.

6Fort Halle ck, Carbon Co., Wyoming, was a post stop of the overland stage established in 1862. It was abandoned in 1866. Mae Urbanek, Wyoming Place Names (Missoula, MT, 1988), p. 70

7The “California Road” is the “Mormon Corrid or ” referred to in the Introduction to the diary. It was a shorter route to Southern Califo rnia by the way of the Mojave Desert and Cajon Pass. The rewere, and are, towns all the way. U.S. Interstate #15 follows it almost mile by mile today. William B. Smart, Old Utah Trails (Salt Lake City, 1988), passim, especially map on page 94.

8“Gentiles” was a name for the non-Mormon population.

9Fillmore is the county seat of Millard Co., Utah. Both of these place names come from the name of President Millard Fillmore, who signed the actcreating the Territory of Utah in 1850. Fillmo rewas the newter ritory’s first capital. The capitol buildin gstill stands as an historical museum and park. Rufus Wood Leigh, Five Hundred Utah Place Name (Salt Lake City, 1961 ), p. 24.

10This was Ann Eliza Gatewood, wife of AtwellM Gatewood. He is referredto as At or Att in the diary.

11We have been unable to identify a “Shanghai pony.” Was it a mongolian pony used by the northern Chinese? There were hundreds of Chinese in the American West by this time. In the 19th century they used the term “Shanghai” for all kinds of animals, for they reminded the speakers of those huge shaggy-legged chickens (i.e. the Cochins) from China.

12Saint George is in Washington County, Utah, the very southwest corner of the state, in the Virgin River valley. It was named for George Adam Smith, counsellor to Brigham Young, the Mormon leader. Young maintained a winter home there because of the mild climate. It is now an historic site.

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