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SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY
VOLUME 19 FEBRUARY 2005 . NUMBER2
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS SFTA OFFICERS AND BOARD CATCH UP! CATCH UP! by Michael Olsen / NOMINATIONS are now in order • for SFTA officers and board mem" bers for terms beginning in October 2005. Included are nominations for president, vice-president, secretary, . and treasurer. Seven director posi tions are open, one for each Trail state-Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, , Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico and cine at-large. The nominating committee is comprised of Mike Olsen (chair), Chris Day, and Roger Slusher. SFTA bylaws specify that mem bers of the board of directors may not Katharine Kelley, seated, with her award. Mary Conrad kneeling beside her. Stand serve more than two consecutive ing, I to r: Anne Mallinson, Pat Marshall, Ross Marshall, Nancy Lewis, Barbara Atkin four-year terms. Officers also may son, and John Atkinson, photo courtesy of Chuck France. not serve more than two consecutive KATHARINE KELLEY PRESENTED OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT terms, except for the treasurer. That position has no term limits. AWARD BY MISSOURI RIVER OUTFITTERS CHAPTER Current president Hal Jackson by John Atkinson and Anne Mallinson and vice-president Anne Mallinson MISS Katharine Kelley of Baldwin City, Kansas, is the first recipient of the have both served two terms in their Missouri River Outfitters Chapter's newly-established Outstanding Achieve respective positions. Secretary Mike ment Award. On Saturday, January 22, 2005, representatives of the chapter Olsen will' not be seeking nomina traveled to Baldwin City to make the presentation. Approximately 35 mem tion. Treasurer Ruth Olson Peters is bers and guests attended the 10:30 ceremony in the Baldwin City Public eligible for nomination and has Lilir~y. . agreed to serve .another term if Following comments by Joe Simumac, treasurer of the Baldwin City Public elected. Board members whose Library Board, and Ross Marshall and John Atkinson of MRO, Miss Kelley terms are up include Ramon Powers was presented with an engraved plaque, inscribed as follows: "To Katharine (At-large), John Atkinson (Mis Kelley in recognition ofher longtime achievements in research, marking, pro souri), Joanne VanCoevern (Kan moting and preserving the Santa Fe Trail in Douglas County, Kansas." sas), Sara Jane Richter (Oklahoma), Kelley became interested in the Santa Fe Trail in 1974 after her retirement Clint Cha,mbers (Texas), and Steve from a 43-year teaching career. Since then she has become a well-known and Whitmore (New Mexico). The posi 4ighly respected expert in Santa Fe Trail history. One writer has claimed that tion for Colorado currently is vacant: , this former fifth-grade teacher knows just about everything there is to know Of these directors, Powers, Atkin about the Santa Fe Trail in Douglas County and beyond. She has traveled the son, Richter, and Chambers are eli entire Trail at least twice and has become good friends with and advisor to gible for nomination for another some of the giants in Santa Fe Trail research. term. Powers has decided not to run for another term. Along with her good friend, the late Amelia Betts, Katharine Kelley refur bished and brought to public attention the seven red granite Santa Fe Trail All current members of the Santa markers placed in Douglas·County in the first decade ofthe twentieth century Fe Trail Association may submit by the Daughters of the American Revolution. In addition to caring for the candidates for nomination and are stone monuments, Amelia and Katharine were responsible for marking addi eligible (with the above exceptions) tional Trail sites in the county. to serve in any capacity. Chapters are especially urged to consider (continued on page 4) (continued on page 4)
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PRESIDENT'S COLUMN All matters relating to Wagon WAGON TRACKS (ISSN 1547 ~ Tracks should be directed to SFTA 7703) is the official publication of THE Association is moving ahead ~ Editor Leo E. Oliva, PO Box 31, the Santa Fe Trail Association, a on all fronts. ,Clive Siegle, our new Woodston KS 67675. , nonprofit organization incorpo Toll-free Phol].e: 888-321-7341 rated under the laws of the State of manager; came through New Mexico FAX: 785-'425-6865 ' ,Colorado, Letters and articles are in mid-'December, and he and I were E-Mail:
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than tropical, the same can't be said ner, integrating the educational copy in a publisher's presentation for the people I met along the way. component into the plan, plus word- binding of this western classic." The Many communities along Zebulon .swithing all of it into a reasonably estimated value was.given- as$5~OOO .' ., .. -. ·.~.pike's route knew.ofhim (as in "the· cqmprehensive .aJ:mlication-and .. alL· .~ ~;: ,to·$7,500..' ',....._..., ...""" .. -.. ' .... gUY'Pikes Peak is named after"),but in the space of a few weeks1'Every SFTA memeer"Matk1J:Gardner :, '.",.,z. t. , ...... - .. _._. - ;:.'... • -, • 'were unaware that his bicentennial one of these projects 'was wonder a -Gregg scholar,~wascqgt·~cte·d ~~9ut . "'---.~... was looming. Other communities, fully crafted and compellingly writ" this and offered the following. ip.for- . . .. ~. like Colorado Springs (in the shadow ten, and everyone of them is worthy mation. "Iftheyare daiming.it is the' ,:d .. of Zeb's mountain), Pueblo, the San of a grant-whether it comes from the only known inscribed and, signed Luis Valley, the southeast corner of History 'Channel or we prospect it copy of this work, the"'yare-incorrect.. . "~ . Colorado (thanks to our Bent's Fort from somewhere else. All ofthe folks 'The Newberry Library has 'a first , " Chapter), and western Missouri; from the SFTA and the partner edition set inscribed to JolinBigelow were already gearing up. But regard schools who worked so'hard on these and signed by Gregg. Like other less of where I went, the warmth of grants are salient examples of the known presentation copies, this set ,., the people and their helpful sugges fact that passionate historical stew has edges in gilt. Also, I have a copy tions made my winter expedition ardship is alive and well along the of the late Fred White's catalog 46 of • well worth the trip. Trail. Western Americana'in whic!) he of- This was particularly true in the With that in mind, remember that fers a second edition set (1845) with case ofthe SFTA folks who were nice March 15 is the deadline for cost "a full page inscription from Gregg." enough to meet with me on my so share grants from our partners at Lastly, I personally know of·a first journs..Pike, you see, had the good the National Park Service. So dust edition set (with black cloth covers sense to go through a number of ar off your "wish list," sleuth out some and gilt edges) in a private collection eas where we have chapters, and new projects, and let me know what I that is inscribed by Gregg in Spanish since he no doubt had the SFTA in can do to help out! to a Mexican merchant by the name mind for his bicentennial, he even -Clive Siegle ofJacobo Sanchez. Nevertheless, the handily blazed parts of what would auction estimate is probably a good become the Trail itself to attract the one as long as the book contains the interest of the rest of the Associa large folding map. Ifthat map is not tion's membership as well. I truly en SFTA lost a dedicated member present, the value is diminished con joyed the warm hospitality of the when Dale E. Brooks, 81, died very siderably, even if it is signed." As members of the Missouri River Out unexpectedly at Newton, KS, No noted, the folding map is missing. fitters, Cottonwood Crossing, Flint vember 15, 2004. It would be nice ifthe purchaser of .Hills, Quivira, Bent's Fort, Coraz6n, Dale was born in 1923 in Winfield. this item would donate it to the and End of the Trail chapters. A He attended Southwestern College SFTA for permanent display at the number of you mounted winter expe and received a Ph.D. from Kansas Santa Fe Trail Center. That pro ditions ofyour own with Pike-like de State University in education. He bably will not happen. termination to meet with me and taught vocational agriculture for share your ideas despite some pretty many years, before he became the di ROBERT'S TRUNK AT LARNED'S wintry conditions. rector of the Central Kansas Voca NORTHSIDE SCHOOL By the time this goes to press, we tional Tech School in Newton. will have news of whether we have Dale was a leader in the Cot-· . FOURTH-grade students at received any grants from The His tonwood Crossing Chapter, having Larned's Northside School partici tory Channel's "Save Our History" served several years as president pated in a study unit related to the campaign. For those ofyou not famil and was currently serving as a Santa Fe Trail during the last week iar with this, or whose chapter was' director. Dale was a charter member in January. Teacher Judy Redding not able to participate, these grants of SFTA and attended every sympo involved students in the unit based of up to $10,000 were offered to his sium since 1986. Condolences are ex on Robert's Trunk, a little volume torical organizatioJ;ls (like us) who tended to his family and friends. which features a ten-year-old young partnered with local elementary ster who accompani~d his merchant • through high school classes to ac GREGG BOOK OFFERED father from Westport to Santa Fe in complish worthy historical projects. SWANN Galleries in New York City 1850. The book, written by David The schedules were extremely tight listed a first-edition copy of Josiah Clapsaddle, is part of the "learning • and the funding, while generous, Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 2 box" which contains various artifacts was quite competitive (rumor has it vols., 1844, for auction on February related to Robert's journey. that there were 699 applications, 10, 2005, noting that it is bound in At the close of the study, Clap and 29 awards!). I am delighted to "publisher's morocco gilt extra," and saddle visited to the school in the report that the SFTA had six grant includes a map and six plates but the guise of George, a driver on the Trail. proposals entered in the competition folding map is missing. It was also Dressed in period clothing, he by the deadline date. This is even noted that the first volume is in related in first person the ordinary more impressive when you consider scribed and signed by Gregg to his experience of a single day on the that it involved identifying a project, sister, Eliza, and the catalog states, Trail. Robert's Trunk and learning conceptualizing its execution; find "We have never seen (nor could we box are sponsored by the Wet/Dry ing an educational institution part- .find a reference to) another inscribed Routes Chapter of SFTA.
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KATHARINE KELLEY AWARD NEW LECTURE S'ERIES ho Heritage Par:k - (continued from page 1) MIT~~ Frank, Superintendent at Betty Durkee & Lee Engler Kelley's efforts have helped others Fort Union National Monument, has Thursday, February 24 see the Trail as an integral part of developed a new lecture series, "The Santa Fe Trail and Kansas the history of theircommunity. She "Glimpses of the Past," to be held in Territory," Leo E. Oliva continues to correspond with people Las Vegas, NM. The evening lec- Monday, March 21 studying the Trail and writes a tures are held at the Citizens' Com- Santa Fe Passage, Jon Bauman historical 'column, "Miss Kelley's mittee for Historic Preservation's Thursday, April 28 Corner'" for the, newsletter of the Santa Fe Trail Interpretive Center, "Hickok Comes To Kansas: James Baldwin City Public Library. She 127 Bridge St., on the third Thurs- Butler Hickok' and the Forging of- spends from three to four hours a day ~ days of-each month at 7:00 p.m. The Kansas Territory," Craig Crease at the library working on,Trail and first lecture on. January 17 was Thursday, May 21 other history topics. "Field Artillery of the Civil War," "Songs of the Santa Fe Trail and Kelley is a charter member and presented by Ken Dusenberry, Albu- ) Far West," Mark L. Gardner. also the first life member 'of the querque, a well known reenactor. Thursday, June 2 , Santa Fe,Trail Association. She has The second program on February I "Trading Ranches on the Santa Fe received the Award of Merit from 24. will feature several speakers. Tra~l," David Clapsaddle SFTA and is, a longtime SFTA Edwina Abreu and Angelica Sanch- Friday-Sunday, June 20-22 Ambassador. She has assisted in' ez-Clark of the National Park'Ser- Wah-Shun-Gah Days DAR promotions of the Trail and has vice's Spanish Colonial Research FRIDAY EVENING: Ghost Sto- donated her papers and books to the Center will give a PowerPoint pre- ries, ' . Baldwin City Public Library. Her sentation on the various materials SATURDAY: Carving Demon- research,will enhance study of the encoun'tered in the research for the stration, Dulcimer Music, Kaw In-
Trail for generations to come. Fort Union Ethnographic Overview tertribal Pow Wow r Katharine's efforts will surely help and Assessment project. Some pho- SUNDAY: Wan-Shun-Gah Walk, keep the Trail alive. The SFTA and tographs of the surrounding Fort Kaw Intertribal Pow Wow Union area will be shown, including the Missouri River Outfitters Chap Thursday, August 11 ter,salute her lifetime of service. photos of descendants of soldiers at '''The Santa Fe Trail & the Great Fort Union. In a video'clip of one of Buffalo Hunt in Kansas; Sharps NOMINATIONS NEEDED the individuals interviewed, the re- spondent will share his photographs Rifles and Cibolero Lances," Clive (continued from page 1) , and explain their significance as Siegle . nominations from among their mem part of history of the area. Maps of Thursday, September 22 bers. The bylaws charge the commit the region will als.o be used to de- "Plucky & Purty: Women on the tee to seek at least two candidates for. monstrate the various historical, cul- Santa Fe Trail," Sara Jane Rich- e.ach expired or vacant position on . tural, and military influences that ter' . the board and for each office. made and continue to make this For more information, please con- Tobe considered, candidates must ,j - • region culturally important. tact Mary Honeyman, Kaw Mission " be a SFTA member in good standing, Luis Sanchez, a participant inthe State Historic Site, 500 North Mis- agree in writing to serve if elected, oral interviews conducted for the sion, Council Grove KS66846, (620) provide a brief one-paragraph biog project, will also speak on the 767-5410,
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PARTNERSHIP REPORT J ,segments of the Plan including GIS ' Masonic Hall Dr. J. L. Gregg, acci mapping, various marking and certi dentally shot himself in this neigh by Ross Marshall fication projects along the trail, pres borhood- He was on his way with his' [Marshall is past president of SFTA ervation activities, various trail in family for Arizona." and the Association's representative formational - . projects, additional Lucy A. Gregg June 10- 1867 to the Partnership for the National money for partnering with SFTA, Lillie May Gregg Feb. 11 Trails System.} etc. Bettie Gregg March 11 A ro riations: Good news. In my 10th Long Distance Trails Confer In response, Dorothy Briggs wrote last column, I reported very little ence: Details are being finalized for to Nancy: "We all say thanks to you hope for additional appropriations this outstanding conference being for doing this for us. Our only disap this year for the Santa Fe Trail. Al hosted by the Old Spanish Trail As pointment was that it didn't say though the ink is not completely dry sociation in Las Vegas, Nevada; what event was happening to cause yet, it appears that the Santa Fe June 17-22. It wQuld be very benefi Dr. Gregg to shoot himself, but it did NPS office will receive an additional cial if one or more of SFTA's leader confirm that he did it himself, and $25,000 in base funding for FY05 (we ship could also attend again this our story is it that he had to ampu got an increase of $40,000 last year). year. A flyer about this conference is tate his own leg." Not near what we were asking for, included as an insert in this issue. If Thanks Nancy for finding the in but a welcome increase. In addition, interested in attending, contact me formation and sharing this with WT. the Challenge Cost Share Program (913-262-6445,
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spread, a pilgrimage would be made events on the trail kept by an actual teachers use best-teaching practices to the rock where prayers were said participant" [xxiv-xxv]. and researched methods for educat and offerings made. Those who vio NOTES ing students about the Santa Fe lated tribal taboos were bound hand 1. Barton H. Barbour. ed., Reluctant Fron Trailand Westward Expansion. The and foot. and placed in the monster's tiersman: James Ross Larkin on the Santa pedagogy portion of the workshop cavernous mouth. Anyone who dared Fe Trail, 1856-57 (Albuquerque: University consists of teaching methods, such as of New Mexico Press, 1990). to rescue such an unfortunate soul 2. The bulk of material for this study was de cooperative learning, reading for was sure to suffer the same punish rived from John E. Sunder, ed., Matt Field meaning, and experimental exer ment. on the Sqnta Fe Trail (Norman: University cises. Musical activities include The legend tells of a Canadian of Oklahoma' Press, 1995). Page num songs, games, and dances of the His bers from this source are cited in the text panic, American Indian, and Anglo trapper who was drowned in the in brackets. . Platte River. His son was taken into 3. Matt's party took the original route of the American cultures.. the Pawnee tribe, adopted, and grew Santa Fe Trail's' Dry Route' which Participants will also experience to manhood only to fall in love with a branched off the WetRoute some three field trips, of Trail sites in the area and-a-half miles - sou,thwest of the chiefs daughter. When smallpox Pawnee Fork Crossing. Louise Barry, The and practice using Global Position- decimated the tribe, a pilgrimage Beginning of the West, 1540-1854 -ing System instruments. Three his was made to the rock and the chiefs (Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, tory trunks ofTrail facsimiles will be daughter was consigned as an offer 1972), 1092. On his return trip, Matt fol given to the three locations for ing to the open mouth of the rocky lowed the Wet Route. teacher and community usage. monster. That night, the young Ca 4. Ibid., 593, 949. 5. Susan Shelby Magoffin, Down The Santa This is the second summer that nadian defied the promised punish Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Su the National Park Service and the ment to res~ue his beloved. Not dar san Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847, ed. By Santa Fe Trail have sponsored these ing to be seen by the Pawnees, the Stella M. Drumm (Lincoln: University of workshops. Last ·year a total of 55 Nebraska Press, 1962),40. couple wandered about trying to participants attended the three 6. Kate L. Gregg, ed., The Road to Santa Fe reach the settlements in Missouri. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico workshops in Council Grove, Kan Traders, it was said, found a rude Press, 1995), 71. sas; Lamar, Colorado; and Las Ve cross near the crossing of a stream 7. Josiah Gregg, The Commerce of the Prai~ gas, New Mexico. A history trunk of on the Santa Fe Trail. Digging be ries, ed. by Milo Milton Quaife (New Trail facsimiles was given to Council neath the cross, they found the bones York: The Citadel Press, 1968),49. Gre~g, Grove Elementary School, Parkview of a young woman and beads and or 8. Kate Road to Santa Fe, 40. Elementary in Lamar, and the Las naments traditionally worn by Paw 9. Thomas B. Hall, Medicine on the Santa Fe Trail (Arrow Rock, MO: Morningside Vegas City Museum. nee girls. Bookshop, 1987),36. There will be a workshop fee and I leave to your judgment as to the 10. David K. Strate, ed., West By Southwest: college credit is available. See the truth of this legend, but if we forgive Letters of Josf'!ph Pratt Allyn, Santa Fe brochure inserted in this issue of Trail, 1863 (Dodge City: Kansas Heritage Matt's excesses with regard to "The Center, 1984),70. WT. For more information, contact Legend of Pawnee Rock," then pel;' 11. Otis E Young, ed., The First Military Escort Marcia Fox at (785) 456-9763 or e haps we can forgive Henry Inman for on the Santa Fe Trail, 1829 (Glendale: mail
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TAKING THE CENSUS AND OTHER INCIDENTS IN 1855, PART I by James R. McClure Reprinted from Kansas Historical Collections, VIII (1903-1904): 227-240, by permission of Virgil Dean, editor, Kansas State Historical Society. [SFTA member Ron Harris of Junc- mate of John W. Noble, who was in the criminal laws of that state had tion City, KS, suggested reprinting Harrison's cabinli)t, and of Milton been so often violated, without any James R. McClure's memoir, includ- Sayler. He ran away from home and attempt to enforce them, that the of- ing information about the Santa Fe enlisted in the Fifth regiment of In- fenders treated the laws with impu- Trail, Council Grove, and pro- diana volunteers in the Mexican nity, and felt secure from slavery leader Fry McGee's stage sta' war, commanded by James H. Lane. prosecution by the officers whose tion at i10 Mile Creek near present When he returned he read law, was duty it was to enforce them. The un- Scranton, KS, to commemorate the admitted to the bar in 1851, and in lawful sale ofliquors without license sesquicentennial ofKansas Territory 1852 was elected prosecuting attor- and the sale of lottery tickets were (1854-1861) and provide details ney for the counties of Franklin, Fay- the most frequent offenses, and my about the Trail and the ania ofeast- ette, and Union, serving until Octo- Democratic friends and supporters ern Kansas during that time. The fi- ber," 1854. He formed the acquain- were in most case~ the offenders. I nal portion of the memoir, which tance of Governor [Andrew Horatio] endeavored vigorously and impar- deals only with McClure's family and Reeder at Shawnee Mission, and be- tially to enforce the law, and to spare • settling on a claim near Fort Riley, " came his personal and political neither friend nor foe, and secured has been omitted because it has no friend. Reeder told him the capital the conviction ofmore men in the two connection to the Trail. The refer- would be located at Pawnee. In De- years I held office than had been ob- ences to "110" in the memoir refer to cember, 1854, he visited this locality, tained for twenty-five years prior to 110 Mile Creek, so named because the and after several trips back and that time. But I made so many ene- surveyors of the Trail in 1825 meas- forth to Westport, located with his mies among my Democratic friends . ured that distance from their starting family at the mouth of Lyon's creek. that I was unable to obtain the nomi- point at Fort Osage, Missouri. The In 1855 he assisted in taking a cen- mition ofmyparty for a second term. creek has the same name today. Spe- . sus, by appointment of Governor I then determined to leave the cial thanks to Ron Harris for submit- Reeder. In 1859 he moved to Junc- state and risk my fortune in the ter- ting this item and to the Kansas State tion City, where he has since resided. ritory of Kansas, which had justbeen Historical Society for permission to He enlisted in the war of the rebel- organized under the Kansas- publish it. Part II will appear in the lion as captain ofcompany B, Second Nebraska act. [Footnote: The follow- next issue. Footnotes in the original Kansas infantry. He was in the bat- ing advertisement we find in the appear within brackets in the text.] tles of Wilson Creek, Forsythe, Dug Herald of Freedom during the years " Springs, and Shelbina. At the latter 1858 and 1859: "J. R. McClure, attor- Biography of Jame~ R,. McClure place a cannon-ball took off his right ney at law, real" estate, and land From Kansas Historical Collections, foot. He was then made quartermas- agent, Ogden, K.T."] The newspa- VII (1901-1902): 363: ter and commissary, serving until pers were filled with glowing de- James R. McClure was born near August 5, 1865, being stationed scriptions ofthis new country. It was Trenton, Franklin county, Indiana, much of the time at Fort Riley: He represented as a land rich in soil, twenty-eight miles west of Cincin- served from 1867 to 1869 as register with a healthy climate containing nati. His father was William of the land-office at Junction City. innumerable streams of pure, clear- McClure, born in Henderson county, Addendum water, and unsurpassed in the· Kentucky, a cousin of Captain Eads, The following note precedes the beauty of its,scen~ry. And ~mong its the architect of the St. Louis bridge. publication of McClure's memoirs: othe: attractI~ms,It wa~ claIn:ed that His mother was Minerva Flint, a "Manuscript found among the pa_ all kmds ofWIld game, mcludmg b~f- niece of Timothy Flint, author of pers of Capt. James R. McClure, who falo, deer, and antel~pe, abo~ndedm various historical and scientific pub- lost his life July 16, 1903, in the all parts of the terntory. LIke ll?-0,st lications. He attended the common burning of a sanitarium at Bonner young me~ of an adve?turous s~:nnt, o schools until he was fifteen years old, Springs Kan." " I became mflamed WIth the hIghly when he went to Miami University, ,. drawn descriptions of this new coun- where he remained three years, until Taking the Census and Other Inci- try, and, without much reflection • the smallpox closed the school. He dents in 1855 and very little preparation or capital, contracted the disease, and was con- IN the spring of 1854, when the act determined to make it my home, fined to his room for six weeks. He of Congress admitting Kansas as a against the advice of my relatives attended Miami during the presiden- territory was passed, I was living in and friends, who used all their ef- cies of Doctor Jenkins and Doctor Brookville, Ind. In 1852 I had been forts to change my purpose. I had a McMasters, who were the predeces- elected, on the Democratic ticket, young wife, married when sixteen, sors of Rev. William C. Anderson, prosecuting attorney of the court of and two small children, the older one D.D. (under whom Benjamin Harri- common pleas for the counties of under two years old. Mter the pay- son graduated), and whose remains 'Franklin, Fayette, and Union, for rhent of my debts I had about $300 rest in our beautiful Highland ceme- the term of two years. When I as- with which to defray the expenses of tery. Captain McClure was a class- sumed the duties ofmy office, I found my trip and commence life in a new
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country, and to me unknown, on their way to Kansas. The accom from Westport, with an old farmer by I left Brookville on the 22d of Oc modations were· very poor, and in the name of Jacob Ragan, a Ken tober, 1854, and was carried by a ca adequate for the emigrants pouring tuckian. They remained at his place nal boat to my Uncle Hornaday's,' 'in. Col. S. W. Eldridge had leased a until April, 1855. and thence by railroad to Chicago, building on the levee for a hotel, In the early part of December, then a city of about 140,000, and called the "Union Hotel"" I was un 1854, Jones, myself, and another from there to St. Louis, where Itook able to secure a bed at the hotel, but young man, whose name I do not re a steamboat, the F. X. Aubrey, to was allowed to spread blankets on member, made a trip into the terri Kansas City. . the floQr for myself and family. S. C. tory. We passed through the town On the boat I became acquainted Pomeroy was stopping at the hotel, site of Lawrence, which had recently with Samuel J. Jones, a Virginian, and was acting as agent for the New been located, and spent one night in and his family, consisting of a wife England Emigrant Aid Company. a large tent, used for a hotel. The' and two young children, who were At the suggestion ofMr. Pomeroy, tent had two apartments'separated going to the territory of Kansas, like Jones and myself crossed the Mis by goods boxes; one for the women, myself, to seek their fortunes. As our souri river to seek a boarding-place the other for men. Every person was destina~ion and purpose were the in Clay county. We went some eight required to furnish his own bed and same, we became intimately ac _miles, to a farm owned by Thomas bedclothing, which consisted ofblan- quainted, and o'ur wives formed a Wood, a pro-slavery man, who owned ,kets spread upon straw laid upon the / strong attachment for each other. several -slaves, and engaged board ground. The bill of fare consisted of Col. Philip St. George Cooke, com for ourselves and families. We then bread, bacon, and very black, strong manding the Second dragoon,s, returned.to Kansas City, and then coffee, without cream or milk. We U.S.A., was also on the boat, with a removed there. were kept awake the greater part of detachment of troops and a large During our stay at this place, I the night by a noisy discussion as to \, number ofhorses for his cavalry regi found a very bitter feeling existing in the policy proper to pursue in order . ment. the neighborhood against all North make Kansas a free state and drive The Missouri river and the coun ern, men, whom they regarded as out of .the territory the pro-slavery try along its banks presented at that abolitionists and dangerous charac men who had invaded Kansas for the time a wild and desolate appearance, ters.. Mr: Jones, who was a pro purpose of forcing slavery upon her and, except for the cities and towns, slavery man, was treated with great people. Among those who spent the appeared to be unsettled and in its consideration, while I, being a free night in this tent was Sam. Wood, primitive condition. Our progress up state man, although a Democrat, and he appeared to be the loudest the river was slow, and our boat fre was looked upon with suspicion and talker and the most emphatic in his quently grounded on sand-bars and as an intruder. I failed to secure denunciation of Southern men. Mr. had to be lifted off by spars. The pas their confidence, or even the privi Wood afterward became quite promi sengers had all become acquainted. lege of association with them on nent in the troubles that followed the , settlement of the territory, and was ,We landed at Kansas City on the ' , friendly terms. Our constant bill of fare while killed a few years ago in the western 2d of November, 1854. I will never part of the state on account of a forget'the depression I felt when I . boarding with Mr. Wood consisted of fresh pork, corn-bread, and potatoes, county-seat fight, in which he was first had a view of the town, then the leader of one of the factions. containing about 500 inhabitants. except game I killed, and Mrs. Wood I , All the business was done on the refused to cook for fear I would re Lawrence had then just been se- river front, and the buildings were main. While I was accustomed to this lected by a party of free-state men as old and dilapidated, the sidewalks diet, our wives and children were un the site for a future city. Everything unpaved, ll;nd the streets muddy and able to endure or support themselves was in a very crude condition. No . cut up with ruts by the heavy freight on this unalterable or unchangeable permanent houses had been erected, wagons. The people were of the low menu, and implored us to seek an and the people were living in shacks est type of frontiersmen, and princi other boarding-house. Finally Mr. and tents. The country was wild and pally composed of teamsters, Indian Jones and myself concluded to visit unsettled. A few cabins had been traders; backwoodsmen, many of Parkville and see if we could find erected on preemption claims in the them Mexicans and half-breeds. some employment there. Jones vicinity of the town, principally on Kansas City was then the principal wanted to rent a hotel at that place,' the Wakarusa river, which wasthen depot for the receipt of freight for and I consented to join him in the en- , regarded as the most desirable part New Mexico and the Indian country. terprise. We started with our guns of the territory. Goods were shipped by steamboat and my pointer dog, which I had We spent only one night in Law from St. Louis, and hauled by mule brought to scent turkeys. After a rence, and the next day we went to or ox. teams from Kansas City to long and tiresome walk to the town, the claim of Judge Wakefield, some Santa Fe and other point[s] West we were unable to find any business seven or eight miles west of Law and Southwest. Westport was a within the capital we possessed in rence. The judge had the best larger and more important town, which to engage. We returned to our improved place we had seen. His and Kansas City was called West families and decided to move them to . cabin was quite large and comfort port landing. . Westport. Jones found a boarding able. He was a very prominent man, ,I found the place full of emigrants house in the town, and I secured and had high political aspirations, board for my family about one mile and was very fond of expounding his
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opinions on all subjects, as he had to encounter. survey ofthe eastern boundary ofthe led himselfto believe he was not only I had an intimation from Gover reservation, so that the site would be thoroughly conversant with all of nor Reeder's friends that in all prob outside the reservation. This them, but that his discussion ofthem ability the territorial capital would changed the eastern line from the was of deep interest to his listeners. be located at Pawnee,' near Fort ·place where it was first established, The judge had written a history of Riley, and in the latter part of De and where it is at this time, to a line the Black Hawk war, and during our cember, 1854, in company with Rob about one mile east of the fort. When stay I am quite sure he related to us ert Klotz, Charles Albright, and oth it was found impossible to induce Mr. the whole contents ofhis book. I have ers, made a visit, by way of Leaven Dixon to sell or surrender his right to felt so convinced of this fact that I worth, to Fort Riley. We traveled in a the 160 acres, it was determined to have never had any desire to read his two-horse team, and it required five force him off the claim, and for that work. days to make the trip. On our arrival purpose another survey of the reser Jones and I concluded to return to . we were taken charge of by the offi vation was made, so as to embrace Westport, as we saw no opportunity cers stationed at the post. I became this tract in the military reservation. to secure a claim that suited us. Af the guest of Capt. Nathaniel Lyon, of In order to accomplish this purpose, a line was run so as to exclude the • ter we reached Westport, Jones took the Second infantry, for whom I charge of the post-office for A. G. formed a strong friendship, which town site but include the Dixon land. Boone, postmaster, and I returned to continued until his death, at the bat This led to the appointment ofa com Mr. Ragan's and rejoined my family. tle ofWilson Creek, August 10,1861. mission ofofficers by the secretary of • Mr. Ragan was one of the original Col. Wm. Montgomery was in com war, who, after an investigation, rec town company of Kansas City, own mand at Fort Riley. ommended that the lines of the mili tary reservation be reestablished ac ing one-fifteenth interest in the town We found there was quite an ex cording to the original survey. This site. He offered to sell me his interest citement over the location of the for $300, which I then thought was . capital, and it was confidently . order was made and the lines fixed in an extravagant price, but have since. claimed that Governor Reeder had accordance with the survey first learned was a lost opportunity to be decided .upon Pawnee. We found a made by Captain Lyon. come a millionaire. number of Reeder's friends from [Footnote: This statement regard I made frequent visits to Shawnee Pennsylvania had already come to ing the boundary lines of the Fort Mission, some two miles west of the post before we reached there, and Riley military reservation and the town, and formed the acquaintance they all apparently had come with town site of Pawnee disagrees with of Governor Reeder and the other the knowledge that Pawnee was to tl~at of Lemuel. Knapp, as given to territorial officers, Daniel Woodson be the capital. A town company had Thaddeus Hyatt, January 5, 1857, was secretary; 1. B. Donalson, been organized, consisting of Colonel and published in the Kansas Histori United States marshal; J. B. Cra Montgomery, Dr. Wm. A. Hammond, cal Society's first volume of Collec mer, treasurer; Samuel D. Le Captain Lyon, Doctor Simmons tions, page 206: "Pawnee is on the compte, chief justice, and Rush El [James Simons], Lieutenant [Armis Kansas river, about one mile east of more and S. W. Johnston, associate tead Lindsay] Long, Robert Wilson, Fort Riley, between One Mile and justices; A. J. Isacks, attorney and others..The site had been sur Three Mile creeks, and is now in general, and John A. Halderman, the veyed and platted, and lots were be cluded in the military reservation, governor's private secretary. I found ing sold at fancy prices. Governor according to decision of the presi Governor Reeder very conservative Reeder had visited Fort Riley and in dent. Major Ogden laid out the mili in his political views. Although he dicated to the town company his in tary post known as Fort Riley in.the was a free-state Democrat, he was tention to make Pawnee the capital. summer of 1853. Colonel Montgom disposed to act fairly towards the As one of the conditions, he insisted ery, who is a free-state man, was the pro-slavery party, and was in favor upon the company securing for him second commander. He formed a of allowing the question of slavery to 160 acres of land adjoining the town military reserve around the fort, and # be settled by an honest vote of the site on the east side, which had been his imaginary boundaries embraced people. He was surrounded by men selected as a preemption claim by a space of eighteen miles one way Thomas Dixon. Repeated efforts and nine the other. In the spring of • who were very bitter towards the free-state sentiment, and who were were made to purchase the land, but 1854 the colonel was authorized by determined by fair or foul means to . Mr. Dixon persistently refused to sell the War Department to have the sur make Kansas a slave state. So in or surrender his right to the claim. vey completed. The reservation, as • tense was this feeling that it was un The boundary lines of the reserva- . then surveyed, was about eight miles safe for a free-state man to venture tion had been surveyed and estab one way and four the other, mostly any opinions in opposition. Governor lished by Captain Lyon before the on the north side ofthe Kansas river; Reeder fully realized the situation, territory was opened to settlement. Pawnee City site was not included in and understood the danger he would The eastern boundary as then sur the reserve, as then surveyed. The encounter by any open expression of veyed was about a mile west of Og survey was run round north and east his sentiments. He found that I fully den, and where it is at this time. of the town-as far east·as two miles indorsed his political views and was When Pawnee was selected for a beyond Three Mile creek, and north a Douglas Democrat, and he was town site, and as the future capital of of the river four miles. A number of very frank in explaining to me the Kansas, it was necessary, in order to Irish families were settled on the dangers and difficulties he expected secure title to the land, to make a re- Three Mile creek, and it was said
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In 1871 he settled little stream where Theodore Jones doubt." in Abilene, Kan., and helped organ and Thomas Morris afterwards lo "The papers relative to the pro ize the Abilene Bank. In 1872 he cated. In the morning, after a hearty ceedings of court-martial in the case moved to Junction City, and became breakfast, we went to the mouth of of Bvt. Lieut.-col. Wm. R. Montgom assistant cashier of the First Na- Lyon creek and, crossing it, I found a ery, Philadelphia, 1858," should be . 'tional Bank. In 1878 he quit bank heavy body of timber between the examined to obtain a clear under ing, and for three years engaged in creek and the river, and decided to standing of the controversy.] the lumber business. For two years locate at that place. My claim in-. At this time there were some eight he was cashier ofthe Merchants' Na cluded the m,outh of the creek. I or ten rough buildings erected on the tional Bank of Kansas City, Mis made arrangements with two men to town site and a stone building, the. souri. He returned to Junction City put 'up a rough cabin in the timber, walls of which are still standing, in and was made president of the First and directed them to ,complete it as which the first territorial legislature National Bank, which position he early as practicable, intending to met, July 2, 1855, and adjourned in a still retains. In 1877 and 1878 he move my family from Missouri to the few days after to Shawnee Mission. was mayor Junction City. He served claim in the spring. . All persons living upon the town site as state senator for the counties of I returned to Westport and joined were ordered by Colonel Cooke, com Geary, Riley and Wabaunsee in the my family, where I left them, at Mr. re~ sessions of 1901 and 1903. He served Ragan's. I was employed by the manding officer at Fort Riley, to r . move themselves and effects within also as president of the board of edu Pawnee Town, Company to hIre men a limited time, and those who failed cation of Junction City for six years. to erect a stone building to be used as to comply with the order were driven He indulges also in farming.] and is a. warehouse for the reception and off by the soldiers. In consequence of the mother of four living children. storage.of goods. It was then sup Colonel Montgomery's. connection They were married November 4, posed the Kansas river was naviga with Pawnee, and his order to 1875. ble and that steamboats would make change the reservation lines, I made a second trip to Fort Riley regular trips, and that a warehouse charges were preferred against him, in January, 1855.lwas accompanied was necessary for the traffic that upon which he was tried, convicted, by two men from Missouri. We had a would grow up at that place. I went and dismissed from the army. two-horse wagon and carried our to Kansas City and in a short time . During my stay at the post, I provisions and bedding, and had to engaged about twenty men, hired a made short excursions into the coun camp out, as there were no places team, and bought the necessary pro try. Among other places, I visi~ed where travelers were entertained .visions for the trip. I accompanied outside the Indian reservations. , the men to Pawnee and they were all Clark's creek with a party of several . , others. We rode in a t·wo-horse On my former visit Captain Lyon put to work on the building. A wagon, and when we reached the had given mea very glowing descrip number of these afterwards selected 'bluff on the east side of the fort it re tion of a creek some six miles west of claims and located in this part of the quired the united efforts of the the fort, which I afterwards named territory; among the number Mr. horses and men to pull and shove the Lyon creek, and I determined to visit Badger, who preempted a quarter • wagon up the steep road. On our re it. Mter reaching Fort Riley we sectign of land some eight or ten turn, after blocking the wheels, we crossed the Kansas river, and fol- miles up the Republican river. attached a rope to the rear end ofthe . lowed up the stream until we struck During this trip to Fort Riley, in wagon,to which we all hung, so as to the bluff, and reaching the summit company with Captain Lyon, I vis let the wagon down in safety. I se we had to drive around, a number of ited my claim on Lyon creek. Mter lected a claim some two miles south ravines, which made the distance at an examination of the surrounding of Fort Riley, where Waldo Clark least twice as far as it would have country, we concluded that·a town now lives. [Footnote: Lots 1 and 2 been ifwe could have crossed them. I would grow up near the mouth of the and south half southeast quarter presume this was the first team that , creek, and we selected for that pur section 5, township 11 south, range 6 ever traveled this route. It took a pose a tract of land east of the creek east:] Subsequently I abandoned it, whole day to reach the bluff over and the claim I had located, and or and located a claim at the mouth of looking the valley of Lyon creek, ganized a town company, with Dr. Lyon's creek. At this time no settle froni which we obtained an extended Wm. A. Hammond as president, and ment had been made on any of the view of the valley. We could see the Capt. N. Lyon as secretary. We public land in the vicinity of Fort . creek for several miles. The bottoms named the town Chetolah. [Foot Riley. , we estimated would average a mile note: In sections 25 and 26, township I returned to Westport after an in width, and the stream was fringed 12 south, range 5 east.] The land was absence of about two weeks, and with timber as far as we could see. soon after surveyed by Abram Barry
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, and G. F. Gordon, but, like many lect my route from a rough map and myself. After going some eight or ten other prospective cities, it failed to the best information possible from miles up the creek, I observed smoke materialize. There was never a the officers and employees at Fort in the timber on the opposite side of house built upon it. Riley. the stream, and I decided to find When I returned to Missouri Gov Early in the morning of February what caused it. I hitched my horse to ernor Reeder sent me a message to -, 1855, I started from the post, in some brush, and crossed a short dis call upon him at Shawnee Mission. tending to follow the valley ofClark's tance in the timber. I was assailed by He asked me if! would accept the ap creek until I reached the divide, then a yelping pack of dogs, which threat pointment ofcensus-take for the sev cross over to the Neosho, and from ened, by their savage howls and enth and eighth districts, which em there to Coun~il Grove. It was a very rushes, to tear me to pieces. Soon af braced all the territory west of Fort cold, damp day, snow was falling, ter I saw several Indians, covered Riley and south of the Kansas and and the wind was in my face. I had with their blankets, approaching Smoky Hill rivers, and extending learned that there was one settler on from the place where I had seen the east to the Wakarusa river. [Foot Clark's creek, and after some effort I smoke. I concluded to make a hasty note: See appointment of James R. ,found his cabin. As near as I can lo retreat without further investiga tion. I retraced my steps as rapidly • McClure, February 12, 1855. (Execu cate the place at this·time, it was just tive Minutes of Governor Reeder, below the mouth of Humboldt. The as possible, and after mounting my page 247, volume 3, Collections Kan name of the settler was Joab horse rode at a rapid gait until I felt , sas State Historical Society). District Spencer. He claimed to be a iawyer, assured I was not followed by the In No. 7 was in the neighborhood of from Lo.uisiana. I should judge he dians. "110," and district No.8 was Council was sixty years old. He was alone, Some ten miles north of Council Grove. Captain McClure was regis and the only resident I could find un Grove I came to a dugout and found a . tered in the ninth district, the til I reached the headwaters of the rough, simple-minded man living in census-taker for that district being creek. After warming myself at his it. I asked permission to spend the Martin F. Conway. (Pages 86 and 87, generous fire and inquiring the way . night with hini, as I feared it was too Report of Committee on Kansas Af to Council Grove, I again mounted far to Council Grove to reach it be fairs, 1856.)] The governor informed my horse and started up the creek. fore dark. He reluctantly consented. me that he had offered the appoint In some way I lost the main valley,' I found on entering the dugout he ment to young Donalson, a son of and followed up one of the .branches had no provisions, except some Marshal Donalson, but he had de until I became satisfied I had lost my parched corn and a quart of New Or clined to accept for fear of incurring course. I then tried to find my way by leans molasses. The place was unfin the displeasure of the pro-slavery crossing the bluffs; but I becan'J.e so ished and full of dirt and filth. He element if he made a fair and honest bewildered by the numerous ravines had a fire in the middle of the floor return of the voters, as he knew they and bluffs, that I lost all hope of ever but no chimney for the escape of would insist upon a much larger extricating myself from the unfortu smoke. I prevailed upon him to let number than could be found. At nate situation in which I was placed. me have a few ears of corn for my "110," near the present city of I had to stop several times and kin horse-neither myself nor horse had Burlingame, at the election for dele dle a fire and get warm. I wandered had anything to eat since leaving gate for Congress, held November from one bluff to another until to Fort Riley, and it is unnecessary to 29, 1854, there were reported 597 wards evening, when I determined, say we were both hungry. I partook votes for Gen. J. W. Whitfield, the ifpossible, to return to Fort Riley, re of the parched corn and molasses in pro-slavery candidate. This was main over night, and take a new company with this mysterious man more than twice the number of votes start in the morning. I was so con and tried to draw him out in conver he received at any other voting-place fused and disheartened that I lost all sation, but he persistently refused to in the territory, and it was evident confidence in myself, and was unable talk, and I was unable to learn'any that a great fraud had been perpe to decide the right direction to the thing of his history. I had some mis trated by stuffing the ballot-box with fort. I at last followed down a small givings as to spending the night with fictitious votes. Governor Reeder in stream until I came to its mouth, and him, but there was no alternative formed me that I would probably then traveled down the larger creek unless I ventured to reach Council , • meet with trouble at this place, if I until I reached the river, which I Grove in the dark and cold, without consented to take the census, as crossed, and spent the night with knowing the route. So I picketed my some of the worst characters in the Captain Lyon. horse near the dugout, and, with my • territory, led by Fry McGee, had set The next morning I again pistol strapped to my body, rolled tled there. I consented to accept the mounted my horse and started on my myself in my blankets and slept as appointment, and assured the gover journey, determined to follow up the well as I could until morning. I after nor I would endeavor faithfully to larger stream, knowing it would take ward learned that the man with discharge my duty and make an hon me in the direction of Council Grove. whom I stayed was demented and est and correct report of the inhabi The weather continued very cold, lived the life of a hermit. He shunned tants of the district. I secured a good and the air was filled with fine snow; society, and preferred to reside in riding horse, a revolver, hatchet, the wind was strong, and, as I had to caves and holes where he would be blankets, and lariat rope, and went face it, I became chilled, and was alone and avoid all intercourse with to Fort Riley to commence work. anxious to find some sheltered place his fellow men. There were no roads, and I had to se- where I could build a fire and thaw (concluded next issue)
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Published by UNM Digital Repository, 2005 11 Wagon Tracks, Vol. 19 [2005], Iss. 2, Art. 1 - . POST OFFICE OAK the T:ail. -Thanks for sharing your Tree was the second literary foray expenence. for Holling, but cert~inly not the -lETTERS- Editor last. His five books for kids, which he Editor: Editor: not only wrote but illustrated, won no less than three Caldecott or Nl;W I always look forward-to reading The article in the November 2004 issue about the Lone Cottonwood bery medals-the children's book Wagon Tracks. I am a charter mem equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. ber and have a complete set of WT. I took me back to a favorite childhood live near Boston and have no way of book of mine, Tree in the Trail by Holling builds his story around sharing my interest in the Santa Fe Holling C. Holling (1942). This book the life of a single cottonwood tree Trail here. Ifsomeone is looking for a and several others by him have growing on the Kansas prairie. The complete set of WT, please let me become childhood classics and still tree becomes a metaphor (kids, of know and I will make arrangements are in print. Each represented con -course, will intuitively perceive this to ship them tcithat person. siderable research on the part of relationship in a second without the Jeff Bransford Holling and his-wife. fancy "grownup" term) for a vast his 28 Arlmont St The story of Tree in the Trail is a torical narrative that is comprehen Arlington MA 02476 lone cottonwood that provided shel sive in its scope. As the story unfolds, Editor: ter for years and then when- it died the tree witnesses the march of 300 I am a member of Cottonwood was carved into an ox yoke which years ofhuman history on the south Crossing Chapter. I enjoy I Wagon made its way to Santa Fe. So it ern Great Plains, from pre-contact Tracks and usually read it within a sounds like the same tree could be Kanza Indians to the tree's final day or two after I receive it. involv~d. In the story, Holling lo symbolic repose as an ox yoke in Santa Fe. In memory ofthe Old Road, I com cates it east of Dodge City and north posed the following:- of the Arkansas, whereas your arti What makes this b-ook a classic is how sixty-years-young and yet con MEMORIES LONG FORGOTTEN cle has it west of Dodge and south of temporary its treatment of the his One evening late I stood alone by the river. Perhaps Holling took some artistic license. torical process is: Indians, typically the Old Road near the Cottonwood. marginalized in the 1940s, are vigor The soft Kansas wind whispered as By the way I biked the Trail this August from Santa Fe to Bent's Old ous and significant participants; it rustled the tall grass. Soon I conquest-era Spaniards, demonized thought there came to me the sound Fort, 335 miles, but I gave up before I got to where the Lone Cottonwood under the now-discredited "Black of a cracking whip and the groan of Legend," step unstigmatized on to an axle hub. Something, someone stood. . Paul Rhenggld Holling's stage; and the Trail-era was on the ancient ruts. Vague im 5 Manursing Way Hispanics of New Mexico, rather ages and sounds of the whip snap Rye NY 10580 than being passive consumers of ping over the straining backs, heavy Your letter reminded me that the Yankee ingenuity are portrayed as loads carried on axles with wheels Last Chance Store should be offering vibrant and reciprocal partners in that crunched the prairie grass as Tree in the Trail, and Clive Siegle of the great adventure that was the they bumped along the ruts, sur fered to write a review of this Trail Santa Fe trade. To be sure, the Anglo rounded me. classic, which follows. Thank you. Santa Fe traders get their day in the "Who are you and where are you Editor sun-after all, in the dark days of going?" I think I said aloud. No an 1942, "Manifest Destiny" in an swer came except the thumping of CONVERSE OF THE _American sense was a pretty reas my heart and the fading sound of the PRAIRIES suring thought-but its touch is gen wheels on the rough old road. tle and positive here. Santa Fe Trail Finally, out of the gathering -BOOK NOTICES- aficionados will find that the lone gloom, "We're memories long forgot Holling Clancy Holling, Tree in the cottonwood is their talisman: tep. and on the way to Santa Fe ... Trail. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., through the eyes of young Santa Fe Santa Fe ... on to Santa Fe." The 1942, and many later editions. Pp. adventurers "Jed" and "Buck", it -be- message and its meaning spoke to 64. Illustrations. Cloth, $21.00; pa comes a lens through which the my innermost parts. The Old Road is per, $13.00, postpaid. Available from young reader can explore the saga of a memorial to those who undertook Last Chance Store. the Trail. The history of the road to an arduous journey one 'step at a One of the hallmarks of a literary -Santa Fe unfolds through their re time. Unknown difficulties loomed "classic" is its ability to speak across peated trips and adventures, with before them but they went ... "on to generations, to stand the "test of the lone cottonwood playing its sup Santa Fe!" time." If the literature of the Santa porting role. The historical sweep of In the -darkness I stood alone Fe Trail has a classic for young read the book, with its effortless integra again in the soft Kansas wind. It ers, it is surely Tree in the Trail by tion of the _issues of the westering whispered as it rustledthe tall grass. Holling. This year marks its sixty process, is superb, and adults can en Wilbur Just third year in print, and it still speaks joy the story as much as young read 7312 Fieldcrest ers. Clearwater KS 67026 with a voice as vibrant and contem porary as if it were written this very Holling was a Caldecott award Many people have reported hear- . mornmg. winning illustrator, and his skill is ing the phantom wagon trains along evident in Tree in the Trail. The b~ok
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is lavishly illustrated with full-page yet elegant prose, which resonates young charges with all manner of color illustrations that have a won with such a wide reading audience. A juicy asides lurking in the details of derful, slightly "retro" 1940s style to perfect example of that ageless ap the illustrations and just begging for them. What makes Holling's design peal shines through in Along the a chance to enrich the main sto even more effective is that he has Santa Fe Trail, written for the 9-to ryline. embellished the margins of the text 12-year-old reader. All-in-all, Along -the Santa Fe pages with numerous subtle pencil Author Ginger Wadsworth origi Trail is just the sort ofbook to start a vignettes of topics germane to the nally set out to write her own version historical dialog on the Santa' Fe storyline, such as illustrated details of seven-year-old Marion's first trip Trail with a young reader. It would about Buck's flintlock rifle, the con over the Santa Fe Trail, but soon the be a good book to contribute to your struction ofIndian arrows, how cara eloquent voice from the pages of the local school or public library, and a vans were corralled at night, how original text caused her to rethink de rigueur gift for all SFTA kids and teams were harnessed, and what a the project. In a prescient but diffi grandkids. dog travois looked like. In one such cult decision-for any author to make, -Clive Siegle graphic "aside," a pencil sketch ofthe she decided to scrap her own text and _ • • •• Trail Tree's rings points out the vari use passages from Russell's Land of _ David Dary, The Oregon Trail: An • -ous human artifacts entombed Enchantment to build the story. In American Saga. New York: Alfred A. , among them, dates them, and gives L doing so, she has skillfully con Knopf, 2004. Pp. xiv + 416. Illustra the reader a familiar event in Ameri structed a very appealing Trail nar tions, maps, notes, bibliography, ap , can history to put the date in context. rative that captures the spirit ofRus pendices, index. -Cloth, $35.00 plus This aside allows younger kids to sell's prose style, while at the same shipping. read the story as a basic historical time tailoring and editing the con Reviewed by Gregory M. Franzwa procession, while the sketch gives tent to be interesting to the young I was quick to respond to Editor older kids (and their parents) an op reader. Oliva's request that I review David tional mini-lesson in more "grown The book begins with Marion, her Dary's book on the Oregon Trail, as it up" historiography. Holling even brother Will, and their mother join would be a chance to make amends throws in a few graphical essays on ing Francis X. Aubry's caravan in with a very nice guy who was terribly the margins about what larger is Leavenworth, and ends with the hurt when I ran Dr. Oliva's blister sues are impacting the tree and its three of themtaking up residence in ing review of his Santa Fe Trail book pards, like the fur trade era, the Lou Albuquerque (and young Marion in our quarterly journal, folio. (There isiana Purchase, and the Coronado making the decision that when she was an even nastier one by Harry expedition. These marginal illustra grew up, she would "travel end Myers in the SFTA's Wagon Tracks.) tions provide a gold mine of nifty de lessly" back and forth over the Santa I know how hurt Dave was because tails, without encumbering the text; Fe Trail). In between are enough ad shortly after the folio piece appeared in effect, they provide a story-within ventures and interesting places a note came from Norman, OK, "I'll a-story for inquisitive readers young along the Trail to interest any young never read another word by Patrice and old. reader (and most adults). Of equal Press. DD" The book has been "officially" des importance, Wadsworth has .skill I guess there's no chance to make ignated as written for the 9-to-12 fully retained enough day-to-day those amends. Although I never read year-old reader. This should not, Trail routine to give the reader a his Santa Fe Trailbook, I fear he was however, preclude its being read to a very clear and realistic picture of even less prepared to write this one younger child; in fact, the conversa what life on a Santa Fe caravan was than the other. Dary's Oregon Trail tional format begs to be read out like. is absolutely awful-factually and loud. Important for the success of books journalistically-and a classic exam Any parent who loves the Trail for this age group is an appealing ple ofhow a little knowledge is a dan and has kids up to preteen should visual component. To accomplish gerous thing. have this book in their house, and all this, the book has been published in I have always maintained -that Trail aficionados should make sure an expanded 9 X 11 format, which al history doesn't change-our percep that a copy resides in their local lows illustrator James Watling to tion of history changes all the time if school and public libraries. embellish it with a masterful collec we study. For example, anyone com -Clive Siegle tion of color pencil and ink drawings paring the first edition of my Oregon •• • • on virtually every spread. He has ob Ginger Wadsworth, Along the Santa Trail Revisited with the current fifth •• viously done some research on his Fe Trail: Marion Russell's Own edition would think I was writing subjects and the time period, an<;l about two different trails. Continued Story, illustrated by James Watling: some care has been taken with re Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman reading helps a lot, but the biggest gard to historical accuracy (although blessing is the research of others. & Co., 1993. Pp. 40. Illustrations. he mistakenlyshows the people rid Cloth, $18.00, postpaid. Available The work of Craig Crease is a case ing in the wagons and has a log in point. Craig is not a journalism from Last Chance Store. stockade around Fort Union). In fact, Few works of Trail literature are teacher nor is he a professional histo _if one is reading the story to a rian. He sells insurance in Shawnee, as beloved as Marion Russell's Land younger child (which is recom ofEnchantment. Part ofthat appeal, KS, for Allstate. But man, he is a mended), "thread counters" and "su whiz in on-the-ground research. I I suspect, stems from its informal, per authentic" sorts can regale their
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was with him in 1997; working on ·the double officers' quarters in its of the Columbia River. the fifth edition of my Oregon Trail place, long before Jackson arrived in 115: Beneath a Bierstadt photo, guide, as he pointed out new discov 1866. "This is the crossing on the Little eries in Johnson County. We looked 37: Caldron Linn, on the Snake Blue River in northeast Kansas Ter over Comanche Park, which he River, is described as a waterfall. It ritory in the spring of 1859." The Lit found to be the location of Sapling was a combination rapids and whirl tle Blue was crossed? Don't think so. Grove, the point of departure for the pool, not a waterfall. 153: "Meanwhile as the first wagons Bidwell-Bartleson Party in 1841..It's 84: "The [Shawnee Methodist] mis of Mormons reached the Missouri at. 83rd and Grant in Shawnee Mis- sion had been constructed in 1839 by River in the spring of 1846, Captain SlOn. Methodist missionaries." Louise James Allen approached the Mor Then we drove to Elm Grove. Barry's famed Beginning ofthe West, mons seeking five hundred volun Found it about two miles northwest listed in Dary's bibliography, gives teers to join the U.S. Army to fight of the famous Lone Elm Camp us the actual date, 1830. Dary's mas Mexico." Captain Allen showed up at ground. Three different places, sive bibliography is very impressive. MOUIlt Pisgah, about 100 miles ea:::;t right? Dary, clinging to his vow to Sadly, he doesn't seem to have used of the Missouri River. never read another word by Patrice it much. 155: "... Sarah Keyes's body was laid Press, still thinks they are one and 88: We see a picture of Naomi Pike to rest in a grave that today is the same, backing it up with this Falls, "This is Alcove Spring." The marked and not far from Marysville, sage information: "By then the sap spring flows from a small opening Kansas." A tolerable journalist ling elm trees that first gave the spot below and at right-angles to Naomi would have said that she was buried, its name were leafing out and grow- Pike Falls. not "laid to rest." Nobody has any - ing into large trees and the gather idea where her grave is, and even the. ing place was becoming known as 90: Beneath a picture of the rock at Fremont Springs, NE: "The names ground-penetrating radar guys have Elm Grove" (p. 78). He goes on to en gIVen up. lighten us by stating that the emi Kit Carson and Col. John C. Fremont grants cut down all but one of the are carved in the limestone at what 160: "[Westport Landing] was the trees, after which the' place became is called Fremont Springs." The carv jumping-off point for Francis Park-' known as Lone Elm. ings are fake. Fremont hardly would man." Wrong. But Dary corrects have made himself a colonel in 1842, himselfon the preceding page by cor Would that this was the only er when he was only a lieutenant. rectly observing that Parkman ror, but alas, there are dozens more. jumped off from Fort Leavenworth.. Here's a whopper: "Late in the fall of 97: At Ash Hollow, "The emigrants 1820, Charles Floyd who had been a crossed the land between the South 175: "... led by Lieutenant Daniel P. member ofLewis and Clark's expedi find North Platte rivers and then Woodbury ... continued west along tion, visited his cousin, Dr. John crossed the North Platte." The North the Platte and selected a site near Floyd, a Virginia congressman" (p. Platte was crossed at present Cas modern Grand Island, Nebraska," 53). Quite a trick, inasmuch as Char per, WY, hundreds of miles to the for the new Fort Kearny. Actually, les died in the vicinity of present west. the site is about 40 miles west of Sioux City, Iowa, on August 20, 99: Fort Laramie, "Built in 1841 and there, across the river from present 1804. first called Fort John." Fort William, Kearney, NE. To further illustrate Dary's awe at or very near the site of present 194: "Some days after the five Ca some k~owledge of the Corps of Dis Fort Laramie, was built by Bill (not yuse Indians were hung...." Really covery: "The idea of a windwagon "Milton") Sublette and Robert Camp bad journalism. They were hanged. was not new. When Captain Meri bell in 1834. It was replaced in 1841 210: "More than two hundred diaries wether Lewis and William Clark by the adobe Fort John, abandoned and journals are known to exist." crossed the plains early in the nine by the army shortly after purchase of Platte River Road Narratives, com teenth century, one of their boats on the fort in 1849. piled by the late Merrill J. Mattes, is wheels with sails set was blown 101: "Coming from the east, the emi- in Dary's bibliography. It annotates along" (pp. 275-276). . grants hardly noticed the gradual more than two thousand diaries, and They just keep a -coming: climb to the C 16 Wagon Tracks February 2005 https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wagon_tracks/vol19/iss2/1 14 : Wagon Tracks. Volume 19, Issue 2 (February, 2005) '- Independence Rock, and many miles headed west from Missouri in 1846 is .the Oregon Trail in 1859 and 1860 to west of Fort Laramie. not known...." reach the Kansas goldfields is not 301: The Indian Peace Commission 163: "Exactly how many emigrants known...." "signed treaties in October 1867 with traveled by way of Fort Bridger is not 289: "Whether he was dead is not southern tribes at Fort Larned in known." k nown.. ,." central Kansas." The treaties were 195: "... whether they found gold is 292: "What happened to the boy -is signed at Medicine Lodge Creek not known." not known." some 60 miles southeast of Fort 200: "Whether or not they reached 307: "Exactly how many emigrants Larned. California in their sleigh is not traveled in this manner [by wagon 335: "Unfortunately, American Falls known...." rather than railroad] in 1869 is not is no longer visible because it is un 204: "Some gold-seekers gave up and known...." der the waters of the American Falls returned east, but exactly how many 346: "Whether or not emigrants Reservoir." Some of the falls are turned back is not known." made much use of the post is not quite visible today, but one must 205: "Exactly how many people died known." look just downstream from the spill ofcholera that spring and summer is 347: "How [Windlass Hill] received way to see them. not known...." its name is not known...." • When I review a book I usually , . 210: "Exactly how many forty-niners Well, here's one of my own: "Ex search for errors, no matter, how actly why Knopfcontinues to publish slight, just to show that the review kept diaries, journals, or sent letters tripe like this is unknown." wasn't written by a publisher's press home recounting their experiences up the Oregon Trail is not known." release. In this case,' I had to search [Gregory M. Franzwa, founder and for some good parts, and truly, there 210: "The company reached Sacra owner ofThe Patrice Press in Tucson, are some: mento safely in mid-October, but is the founder of The Oregon-Cali whether any of the members struck For example, I enjoyed reading fornia Trails Association and author it rich is not known." about Henderson Luelling's botani of 19 books, including The Oregon cal impact on Oregon, but Dary evi 218: "Exactly how many gold-seek Trail Revisited and Maps of the Ore dently is unaware that some of ers reached Fort Laramie in 1849 gon Trail. He received the SFTA's Henderson's trees are still alive and before the government took posses Rittenhouse Stagecoach Award for still bearing fruit. ' sion is not known...." lifetime achievement of research and Dary's .stories of the people who 227: "Exactly how many emigrants writing in 1999.] contracted to deliver mail to the Ore headed west over the Oregon Trail in 1850 is not known...." KATIE BOWEN LETTERS, 1851: gon pioneers was especially well PART VIII done-IJearned from that. The maps 230: "How many turned around and in the book are clear and nicely done. headed for wherever they came from edited by Bonita and Leo Oliva' His story, of Ezra Meeker is all in my is not known....", [Katie Bowen Letters (Bowen Family own library, but'it was fun reading 237: "Whether Jones found volun- Papers, U.S. Army Military History about the old guy again. teers IS.not known.... " Institute, Carlisle Barracks, PAY tell There are lots more clinkers-this 240: "What happened next is not ing of a trip to New Mexico over the review is already too long to list cIear....'" Trail in 1851, continue. This section , them all, but the reader must be pre 254: "F~rom where and when they d~ begins with her letter ofJuly 18to her pared for some serious tooth parted is not known...." nephew Matty, started at Pawnee gnashing as Dary repeats his favor- , 25,5: "The identity ofthese emigrants Fork and finished at Fort Atkinson ite expression, ad nauseam. We is not known...." (Actually, the (which she calls Mackey, the first counted its repetitious use at least hackneyed old photo is of some Mor name of the post) on July 23. She 30 times. Here they are, to be filed in· mons with their wagons in South Da then chronicles their travels beyond the "who-the-hell-cares" folder: kota.) Fort Atkinson. The letters will con tinue next issue.] 72: "How many people attended the 256: "Whether they died from chol meeting is not known...." era is not known." Pawnee Fork, Friday at noon OJ 114:, "Gilliam's reaction is not re 265: Under illustration: "E~actly July 18, 1851 corded." how many emigrants were struck by Dear Little Matty. I promised to 115: "Whytilliam resigned is un- lighting [sic] during spring thunder- write you a letter the first live buf • cIear...." storms IS.not known.... " falo we saw and now they are all 122: "The exact location of his grave 270: "Exactly how many people in around us in' thousands, com is unknown." . tending to go to Oregon or California pletely besplattering the plains with 131: "Exactly how many emigrant,s decided instead to go to Cherry their hugeforms. On the evening of left Independence and other jump Creek is not known...." the 16th we camped within a few miles of them for the first time and ing-off points south of St. Joseph, 276: "Whether or not Peppard got his Missouri, in 1845 is not known, but Uncle Isaac rode-eut with four of his idea [for a windwagon] from reading men'to shoot one for dinner. They there were large and small compa- the journals of Lewis and Clark is nles.. " . left camp about 4 oclock in the af not known...." ternoon and I went to sleep till 6 152: "Exactly how many emigrants 277: "How many gold-seekers used o'clock. When I awoke I had dinner \ February 2005 Wagon Tracks 17 Published by UNM Digital Repository, 2005 15 Wagon Tracks, Vol. 19 [2005], Iss. 2, Art. 1 got and the table set expecting sands & tens of thousands are Grandma that the bachelor here him every minute but sundown every where to be seen and a has entertained us well and insisted came, then dark, and hour after great many tribes of Indians are this morning that his man cook hour passed till 10 o'clock. I got through the country laying in their must make some ice cream, the very uneasy, walked up and down winter supply of meat and making poor fellow probably never heard the road and at last hung out a lan the robes to wrap you little boys in of the thing before but said he tern on our wagon, fearing the when you go out sleighing. We find could freeze it and I mixed it for party had lost their way. The Maj no trouble with the Indians, they him, but the best joke was bringing had gone out to direct the sentinels come into camp to beg or sell their it on the table in a tin twelve quart to keep the camp fires, get mount dried meat. For several days we pail. We had great sport at the ed and start out. I got quite into a saw a plenty of antelope, but suc-. sight, but it tasted well neverthe fever fearing the Pawnees had ceeded in killing none. They run less. The greatest abundance of scalped them when he came gal much faster than the deer. Wolves ice is here and I begged to be loping into camp almost ex are too n'umerous to pay any at locked up in it last night. It was very hausted from want of water and tention to. They sit every morning refreshing to taste a cool drop of nearly famished for dinner. Before near camp waiting for us to leave water on reaching here: We ex he could speak he swallowed two so that they can come in and pick pect to go through in 30 days from pints of water and then asked us if up the scraps. Yesterday morni'ng here. The weather is very hot now his companions had arrived, no one came along beside our wag- and the breeze is like the air of a they had not and what kept him so . gon and our dog went up, smelt of stove room. Give much love to long? Why he had taken after a him and tried to have a frolic, but your cousins Matty, kiss dear little large buffalo, got separated from Mr. Wolf thought it too much trou Willie, and be the best little boy that the rest, night came on and after ble or too familiar & walked off. ever was·to all around you. Tell Pa he had waited some time for his They follow the buffalo herds, and he must let you come to Santa fe to men, they not appearing, he put when one gets wounded or lame see Aunt Katie. Ask Adelaide out for camp, after riding very hard pounce upon him & eat him up. what's the news and if she will help for some time he espied large fires Our waggon master last evening you to write a letter to Aunt Katie. and thought he was close home, brought us a live buffalo calf some Uncle Isaac often talks of you and rode furiously on toward the lights months old, but he must have hurt would like to send you one of these and got very near them, when a the little thing as it only lived a few little prairie dogs. There are several whole pack of indian dogs com hours. They are homely things but here in.garrison. Remember me to menced barking and warned him you would like to see the humps on everybody, Grandpa and Grand that he was within hail of the en their shoulders and see their long ma and accept this from your. Aunt emy. He turned his course very sud manes hanging to the ground. Katie. denly and put spurs to the poor They are fine old fellows. The cows Sunday evening, July 27. On the beast, having come to the conclu are rather pretty, more like deer banks of the Arkansas. This is the sion that he had passed camp, and always lead the herd. I had a fourth day out from Fort Mackey and he would try to find water for beautiful white crane given me and we have accomplished sixty his horse, then lie down for the yesterday. The feathers were four miles. Nothing of importance oc night. When, joy to wandering soul, inches long and covered with curred until yesterday morning af he saw my beacon high in air and down. I saved the pretty wings and ter we had been marching several never saw a sight so pleasant. He picked off the little plumes. They hours. Isaac was riding in the car returned without his meat, having would be pretty for Willies hat, & I riage and told the man to drive to shot many balls into one old tough wish I could send them. You must the river to water the mules, as we fellow who carried them all off in his be a real good boy Matty, and approached the bank we noticed body. The next morning early, his teach Willie to write so that you large herds of cattle grazing on the men brought us a fine buffalo calf and he can send me a long letter. opposite shore and immediately well dressed, and we had the liver Love each other very much and do pronounced them wild, but before for breakfast. I thought of you little not forget your dear little cousin we got to the river Maj Rucker rode Matty, while eating it for you are so who was so happy with you last up calling, Bowen dont you see the fond of liver, and the meat is much winter. Go with Grandma some Indians? Where was the first inquiry, nicer than beef. Yesterday morn times and see the flowers growing and immense droves of horses ing as we were coming along on her little grave, and tell me in were pointed out to us which we through dense herds of buffalo Un your letter all you have done for had supposed cattle, and on look cle Isaac shot a big old fellow, but .Grandma since I Came away. I will ing along the road: a few miles in his skin was very bare and he did write to you when I have any little front, discovered a great many not have it taken off. His tongue stories to tell and you remember all lodges, although no Indians had was cut out. They are very nice and you can to tell me. made their appearance. The Maj I have some pickled. Iwish you and Fort Mackey, July 23d 1851 ordered a halt till all the waggons Willie could see these wild old buf I did not get a chance to send came up and he with a man who faloes, they grumble all night, this out and had to keep it till now. speaks a little of several languages, sounding like distant thunder, or We came here yesterday and are rode out to see the prospect. As waves breaking on the shore. Thou- going away tomorrow morning. Tell they climbed the hill, a Subchief is- 18 Wagon Tracks February 2005 https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wagon_tracks/vol19/iss2/1 16 r : Wagon Tracks. Volume 19, Issue 2 (February, 2005) sued from the earth' on horseback bottom knocked out, for a brace tended to eat the butternuts he put . (for no one could tell how he got let and a. braided horse's tail. at up for us but upon opening the box where he was, unless the earth tached to his head which dragged discovered them to be quite ran vomited him) and explained the on the ground and was covered cid and we were greatly disap party to be part of the tribe of with tin broaches. Among them pointed in our feast. Kiowas, who are out to fight the was one Pawnee woman and two 29th. Hot, dusty and very hard on Pawnees who recently killed one of children who had been taken pris the animals. The oxen will surely die their number. Expressed them oners. She said that she had been if the Maj persists in these long selves friendly and the one lone In to Santa fe and was taken there marches, for six days we have aver dian went with us to our waggons. while living with her husband, a aged 16 miles a day and without Just then, as fate would have it, an frenchman, by name Jimmy Lee,' rain. The cattle seem suffocated axeltree in one of the waggons that one of the children was his by with dust. These clouds in any other broke, wtlich of course would com a white wife and when she was sto country would turn out rain, but pel us to stop for repairs and give len she took the child with her be here I believe all signs fail, at least the appearance of remaining on cause she was jealous of her hus all rain signs. Behind and before us account of weakness and fear to band. The Maj offered to take her rain poured about 2 o'clock, but pass the encampment, and we to Santa fefor the sake of restoring here only a few drops fell, not suffi were afraid the effect would be the little girl (who is ten years old) cient to retard the progress our ' bad upon the Indians. But the Maj but the woman" was afraid to run driver was making. We see nor hear took the chief to the waggon and away and was afraid to give up the anything of Indians.. • explained what detained us, then child, although she had compunc 30th. This morning we are late in selected a camp and we pitched tion of conscience for stealing her getting off and I write to kill time. our tents in good order for resis and would-be glad to have her re Every morning for a week we have tance if necessary. The Maj stored to her father. She told us that got started ot 5 and reached smoked with.the Indian and gave Mr Whites child [this is reference to camp after 2 o'clock. Our marches him luncheon, by qnd by men, Virginia White, daughter of James are not now so pleasant because women, and children poured in and Ann White captured near we do not separate in case any In upon us, and of what we had we Point of Rocks, New Mexico, in Oc dians come upon us unawares. fed them. One sprightly woman, tober 1849, and is the latest known Last night the wolves serenaded us the fifth in rank of the chiefs wives, is . indication }hat Virginia was still from all directions,' and after we a Mexican and Isaac questioned alive; see Harry C. Myers, "Massa had been in·bed some time the . her all about the tribe and herself. cre on the Santa Fe Trail: Mr. moskitoes made their appearance She said that she was taken pris White's Company of Unfortu forcing me to get up and stretch oner by this tribe in Chihuahua ten nates," Wagon Tracks, Feb. 1992, our net. The sky is overcast just now , years ago, when she was quite a 18-25] is in this tribe, but at present is and I do not desire to see the sun child, that she had been made a with' the warriors hunting Buffalo toddy. wife by the chief and although and will be in camp in six days. (continued next issue) they treated her well enough, she What a pity that these children would much like to be mounted on cannot be rescued. Our party was COUNCIL TROVE a swift horse and make her way not strong enough to take them " -DOCUMENTS home. Says the tribe is friendly to all and many of the indians showed INDEPENDENCE PRICES, 1850 Americans but hate the Mexicans. indignation that we petted the SFTA Ambassador .Jane Mallin The head wife was' wrapped in a white children and scorned theirs. son sent the following section of the common blanket and displayed a This Pawnee woman speaks good 1850 diary of Dr. Edward Alexander large quantity of brass wire twisted English and Spanish and had the Tompkins, who purchased supplies around her bare arms for bracelets. two children dressed like Ameri at Independence for his trip to Cali The Mexican wife was covered cans. They troubled us none after fornia. The prices would have been with a piece of course blue'cotton dark. The Maj told them to be off the same for those going to Oregon duck with buckskin' stockings & and not come within the line of and Santa Fe. The diary was tran shoes and performed the service of sentinels. This morning they were all scribed by Richard L. Rieck, Dept. Of drudge to the first squaw, picketing ranged along the road to see us Geography, Western Illinois Univer out her horse and giving her the depart and we have not heard sity at Macomb. Thanks to him and ., best morsels to eat. She wore no or from them since. . Jane for this. Tompkin's diary entry, naments and was mean enough . July 28th. This day has been most including his comments on Wayne' looking. She said her hair was luxuri oppressive, not a breath of air and City Landing and Independence,' is ant when she was captured but the dust intolerable. Every appear reprinted here as transcribed: they made her cut it all off. We ance of rain and we hope for it. On Sunday the 28th April showed her a small looking glass Isaac shot a young antelope and we landed at Wayne City the most and she said that in her home in we had a quarter baked for dinner. miserable of all wretched collec Mexico she used to have large I had the skin dried as a trophy. No tions of log huts that were ever in ones but had none now. One In signs of Indians and they will keep hatited by pick pockets, grog dian who prided himself on his fine away from our shooting irons. This is venders and vagabol}ds of every dress, had an old tin cup with the Father Bowens birthday and we in- -' . shade, name, and nature. Here we February 2005 Wagon Tracks 19. Published by UNM Digital Repository, 2005 17 Wagon Tracks, Vol. 19 [2005], Iss. 2, Art. 1 remained all night and in the morn course, not the romance of moon Bend; E. E. FriielL Larned; H. B. Bell ing hired our baggage taken to the light and nightingale songs, but the and R. R. Biggs, Dodge City; R. E. city of Independence which lay, in glamour of romantic history which Stotts and Ben Grimeley, Garden the mists of the most beautiful clings to this route all the way from City; James Doyle, Lakin; and Bruch country. imagineable. 3. Miles from old Westport Landing, historic Back, Syracuse. river Pawnee rock, Boot Hill at Dodge The cities to be assessed for rais Independence is laid out like the City, Kit Karson's hangout, the Ute ing the fund include: Gallup, Albu squares of,a checkerboard. In the trail over Raton pass, and pictur- r querque, Las Vegas, Springer, and Center of _the City is a beautiful esque Santa Fe. _ Raton, N. Mex; Trinidad, LaJunta, Park in the midst of which is a Brick , At a conference attended by 42 Las Animas, Lamar and Holly, Col.; Court House. With a Conical roof. representatives of that many com Syracuse, Lakin, Garden City, Ci The people of this region are polite. munities from Olathe to Raton, held marron, Dodge City, Kinsley" Lor- Hospitable but ignorant. The Coun in Dodge City Monday, it was _ned, Great Bend, Lyons, McPher try around is-very beautiful indeed. agred that what the Santa Fe Trail son, Marion, Herington, Council Here we obtained our out fit for needs now more than anything Grove, Burlingame, Scranton, Bald California which consists of else is publicity that will attract tour- win, Gardner, Hutchin'son, and 2 Mules, Each at 70 Dollars $140.00 ists this way. _' Stafford, Kas.; and Kansas City, 2 Pack Saddle 5. " 10.00- With an all-paved highwayroute Mo.-Hutchinson Herald. 1. Riding Horse 60.00 from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Dr. C. C. Sterrett head of the 1 " Saddle 7.00 the most scenic route, this National road committee, of the Chamber 100 Ibs. Crackers at 6rt pr Ib 6.00 Old Trails route also offers the most, of Commerce, and Claude Akers, 35. "Sugar 10"" 3.50 thrilling historic background. its secretary, attending the meet 1O. "Coffee 15."" 1.50 "But the trouble is, the tourists ing in Dodge City, Monday. Kins 1. "Tea 1.00"" 1.00 don't know it," explained Ralph ley's assessment would amount to 1. Camp Kettle ,1.00 Faxon, secretary of the Raton about $33.00, on the basis of a cent 1. Set of eating rig. Plate Knife Chamber of Commerce. "We've and a half per capita.· - Cup Coffee pot. etc .50 got to give them romance." 1. Frying Pan 1.00 PIKE'S COLUMN It will take some money to get 65.#s. Ham. At 10rt 6.50 out the literature and to get it into 3. Blankets $4 each 12.00 the hands of the tourists. It was 3. Larriettes "%". 2.25 agreed that a fund of $3,000 would 3. Halters " 1 " 3.00 take care of it. The money will be Extra Rope " 1 " 1.00 raised by assessment of 1112 percent Extra Strap "2 " 2.00 [1 V2 cents] per capita population,' 1. U.S. Rifle 10.00 in the towns along the Trail route. 1. Good Revolver 30.00 Powder &. Ball 1.50 A finance committee was 1. Oil Cloth for each animal 6.00 elected, composed of E. E. Frizell, Oil " Clothing 12.00 of Larned, C. C. Scats, of Dodge Beginning expense total. $317.75 City and E. D. Embree of Raton, N.M. This committee will supervise I • • • • i~L ROMANCING THE TRAIL, 1939 collection for the fund from Cham Uh " Rosetta Graff, Kinsley, KS, mem bers of Commerce along the M;,·.;",~~ ber of SFTA and the Wet/Dry Routes route. [This special column will continue as Chapter, unearthed the following ar -William E. Ingliss, secretary of the a series in Wagon Tracks until the ticle from the June 6, 1939, Kinsley Trinidad Chamber of Commerce close of the Pike Southwest Expedi Graphic. Those at the meeting de presided. tion Bicentennial activities in 2007. scribed were forerunners of SFTA, Members of the booster commit It features documents, articles, bibli 'certainly of the _Highway 56 Santa tee which will develop the Ro ography, and notes which tell the Fe Trail organization active in the mance atmosphere along the Tr.ail story ofPike, his expeditions, and re 1960s. For them, promotion of tour through Kansas are T. W. Wood lated topics. Submissions are solic ism overcame historical reality, and ward, Hutchinson; John C. Nochol ited for this column. one does wonder where to find "Kit son, Newton; Grant Hoener, Staf There ar.e three items in this issue: ,Karson's hangout." The article is re ford; William Allen White, Emporia; correspondence, book review, and the printed here as originally published: A. P. Elder and John R. Thompson, eighth installment of Pike's journal. Would Revive Old Trail Romance , Ottawa; W. C. Jones, Olathe; E. F. Keep informed with the Pike Bicen To win back to the historic Santa Alexander, Gardner; Dr. W. M. tennial plans at 20 Wagon Tracks February 2005 https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wagon_tracks/vol19/iss2/1 18 : Wagon Tracks. Volume 19, Issue 2 (February, 2005) ) , Tracks, May 2003, several mentions remainder of the book examines thing. One of my men killed a deer. were made of temperatures meas Pike's trek to the Rockies (including 5th February, Thursday.-The doc ured by the Pike party. What I failed his missions to the Osages, Kansas, tor and myself went out to hunt, and to mention was the temperature and Pawnees, and sending Lieuten after chasing some, deer for several scale used by Pike. The scale on that ant James Wilkinson, son of the gen hours, without success, we ascended thermometer was Reaumur. On this eral, down the Arkansas River from a high hill, which lay south of our scale the freezing temperature, of present Great Bend), the discovery of camp, from whence we had a view of water is 0 degrees and the boiling the mountain peak later named in all the prairie and rivers to the north point of water is 80 degrees. Pike's honor, venture into the moun of u's; it was at the same time one of Rene-Antoine Ferchault de Reau tains where his party became hope the most sublime and beautiful in mur (1683-1757), a French natural lessly lost and suffered greatly when land prospects ever presented to the ist who is best known for his multi winter overtook them, his capture by eyes of man. The prairie lying nearly volume study of insects, constructed Spanish troops, his detention in north and south, was probably 60 the alcohol thermometer oftlii's scale Mexico, and return to the U.S. Cal miles by 45. in 1731. The Reaumur scale is 1.25 vert doe~ not shy away from the_ con The main river bursting out ofthe, times the Celsius scale, or to convert troversies that long colored Pike's we~tern mountain, and meeting • Celsius to Reaumur, R =C x 0.8. To achievements, including the Burr from the north-east, a large branch, convert Reaumur to Fahrenheit, F = Wilkinson conspiracy and how much which divides- the chain of moun R x 2.25 + 32. To convert Fahrenheit Pike knew ofor was involved in their tains, proceeds down the prairie, schemes. Was Pike guilty? Calvert • to Reaumur, R = (F - 32) / 2.25. This making many large and beautiful is applies to all references to tempera looks at the evidence anc1concludes, lands, one of which I judge contains ture in Pike's journals. as do most Pike scholars, "it doesn't 100,000 acres of land, all meadow Peyton O. Abbott seem likely" (p. 63). , ground, covered with innumerable 8 Crownbridge Ct Calvert quotes ,John Terrell's herds of deer; about six miles from Pueblo CO 81001 observations about Pike's mission, the mountains which cross the prai BOOK REVIEW noting it was "one of the most poorly rie, at the south end, a branch of 12 Patricia Calvert, Zebulon Pike: Lost equipped, ill-timed, injudicious, steps wide, pays its tribute to, the in'the Rockies: New York: Bench harebrained, daring ventures ever, main stream from the west course. mark Books, 2005. Pp. 96. Illustra undertaken in western America." Due W. 12~. N. 75°. W. 6°. Four miles tions, maps, notes, bibliography, in Perhaps this little book, coming as it below is a stream of the same size, dex. Cloth, $29.95 pius shipping. does on the eve of the bicentennial of which enters on the east; its general Pike's expedition, will help focus course is N. 65°. E. up which was a This volume in the "Great Explo some ofthe attention now devoted to rations" series is designed for young large road; from the entrance of this Lewis and Clark to this other down, was about three miles, to the readers, butit offers such a fine over explorer, whose accomplishments view of Pike's Southwest Expedition junction of the west fork, which wa 'were every bit as significant, and ters the foot of the hill on the north, that it canbe recommerided as a good probably more so, as the more introduction to the topic for all ages. whilst the main river wound along in famous C~rps of Discovery. Anyone meanders on the east. In short, this Calvert, with more than 20 books to wanting a good overview of Pike's her credit, has utilized the best his view combined the sublime arid expedition would do well to start beautiful; the great and lofty moun torical sources on Pike's exploration, with this volume. including Donald Jackson, Elliott tains, covered with eternal snows, Coues, and Eugene Hollon, choosing PIKE'S JOURNAL, PART VIII seemed to surround the luxuriant vale, crowned with perennial flow significant quotations from Pike's This reprint of Pike's journal ofthe journals to help carry the story. The ers, like a terrestrial paradise, shut expedition of 1806-1807 continues, out from the view of man. ' ' result is not some storyteller's ideas starting with the entry for February 6th February; Friday.-The doctor of the Pike legend for young people 2, 1807. They were at the point on having some pecuniary demands in but a sound historical presentation Rio Conejos, tributary ofRio Grande, the province of New Mexico, con in a finely-crafted and handsomely where they built the stockade to pro ceived this to'be the most eligible illustrated (there are 32 illustra tect them through the remainder of • point for him to go in, and return pre tions, many in color) volumewith "li winter. It was there they were found vious to all my party having joined brary binding." by Spanish soldiers. me from the Arkansaw, and that I ' , Calvert provides a biographical Pike's Journal sketch of Pike, which portrays him was prepared to descend to Natchito 2d February, Monday.-The doctor ches: he therefore this day made his as 'a real person with strong , and. weak points and not just a military and myself went out to hunt, and preparations for marching to-mor , officer who suddenly found himself with great difficulty, by night, killed row. I went out hunting, and killed a sent on a 'very difficult mission by one deer, at the distance of seven or deer at three miles distance, which, General James Wilkinson (whose eight miles from Camp, which we with great difficulty I brought in carried in. character is also. assessed). Two whole. chapters are devoted to Pike's first 3d February, Tuesday.-Spent in We continued to go on with the expeditionto seek the source of the reading,&c. works ofour stoc~adeor breast work, Mississippi River, 1805-1806. The 4th, February, Wednesday.-Went which was situated on the north out huntIng, but could not kill any bank of the west branch, about five February 2005 Wagon Tracks 21 Published by UNM Digital Repository, 2005 19 Wagon Tracks, Vol. 19 [2005], Iss. 2, Art. 1 which came from the first page of a Coming and passing from view. Heart of the Flint Hills program used to dedicate the DAR On the wagon covers, "Pike's Peak or President Carol L. Retzer marker at Lone Elm Campground in Bust. " 4215 E 245th St 1906. The poet hails from Spring HIll Yes, the fever was high for the yellow .. Lyndon KS 66451 dust, . (785) 828-3739 in Johnson County, Kansas. The 24 Wagon Tracks February 2005 https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wagon_tracks/vol19/iss2/1 20 : Wagon Tracks. Volume 19, Issue 2 (February, 2005) of Las Vegas will present our .first was presented by Jon and Betsy Go land Park, KS. Two days later, at the program for 2005 on Sunday, March ering of Newton, Kansas.. Baldwin City Library in Baldwin 20. The lecture will begin at 1:00 p.m. ]he WetlDry Routes Semin'ar City, KS, an Outstanding Achieve in the lower dining room at Spic 'n "Before Becknell" will be on ment Award was presented to Span, 715 Douglas Street.' Lunch Saturday, May 7,8:00 a.m. to 1:00 Katharine Kelley for "her lifelong will be available upstairs before the p.m., at Fort -Larned National achievements in research, marking~ talk. ' Historic Site. The seminar will be in " promoting and preserving the Santa Wet/Dry Routes conjunction with the Fort Larned Fe Trail in Doug'las County, Kan sas." The Outstanding Achievement President David Clapsaddle , Old Guard's annual meeting. Every 215 Mann one is invited to attend. Reservations Award o/as recently established by Larned KS 67550 required byApril 28, (620) 285-6911. the MRO Chapter and will be (620) 285-3295 _ Dodge City/Fort Dodge/Cimarron awarded only on occasions of excep February 2005 Wagon Tracks 25 Published by UNM Digital Repository, 2005 21 Wagon Tracks, Vol. 19 [2005], Iss. 2, Art. 1 completion is Spring 2006 when the linson was the featured speaker, tell House Museum in Florence. City of Gardner will celebrate its ses ing about current activities ofthe As We would like people to express quicentennial. sociation. interest in what they would-like to Th~ chapter will sponsor a bus Dale Brooks, one of the chapter's see 'so' we can ""plan accordingly. ,.." ,- .. ,tou'r ofsites at'the eastern end of the most active members, died 'Novelli- Contact me at 400 W 2'4th--St..#T, .... Trail oh: May ,14, led by',Ross Mar ber 15. Over the years he served as North Newton KS 67117, ,phone' shall, including' Boonville, Old vice-president and president and (316) 283-3631, e-mail ent. The meeting recognized the 10th 1864 after an Indian raid at the •••• , anniversary of the chapter. John Fuller Ranch. There are excellent John Hinz, chair of the Waverly, ' Dick was present and thanked for museums in the area, including the MO, "Citizens for Progress," reports his time and effort to organize the Adobe House Museum in Hillsboro, there is a log cabin in that com- Cottonwood Crossing Chapter. Kaufmann Museum in North New~ " munity beside the Trail that was ton, Marion Museum, and Harvey built in 1818. It may be the oldest SFTA Vice-President Anne Mal- r 26 Wagon Tracks February 2005 " https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wagon_tracks/vol19/iss2/1 22 : Wagon Tracks. Volume 19, Issue 2 (February, 2005) buitding along the Trail in Missouri. INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIPS go KS 66547 More information is awaited. Kenneth Ackley, 17745 L.C. 2220, Mariah Ekart, 1201 17th St, Wl;lme- • •• . - . Verona MO 65769 ' go KS 665.47 : SFTA member John M. Eatwell; Dick Bratton, PO Box 200, Green John Frank, 12955 Turkey Hollow, Denver, CO, and David K. Clint re Mountain Falls CO 80819 . Rd, Westmoreland KS 66549 , " cently published a book titled Pike's Mary Honeyman, D-20 Lake ~d., Chanlehr George, PO Box 290, West- Peak Gold. This 240-page, limited Council Grove ,KS 66846 moreland KS 66549 edition, profuselyjllustrated volume Elizabeth Ashe Howe, RR 1 Box 211, Josie Gonzales, 17310 Meadowlark . focuses on Pike's Peakflasks, and in S PenobscotME 04476 ' Lane, Wamego KS 66547 cludes history, from Louisiana Pur Tommy G. Johnson, 184 Moss Hill Adriana Gonzalez, 111 Commanche chase through the gold rush, as well Terrace Road, Natchitoches LA Ct, Junction City KS 66441 71457 . . , as everything known about the Katie Good, 3805 Apel Rd, Wamego KS 66547 flasks. For more inrormation and to Don A. Prather, HCR 1 Box 17, Ken- . ton'OK 73946 . Luke Goodenow, 202 Campbell St, order books, contact Eatw~ll, 2345 S Harry L. Rinacke, 19608 E Yocum Westmoreland KS 66549 Federal Blvd #100, Denver CO .Rd,'Independence MO 64058 Kate Gronquist, PO Box 155, Alma 80219. See insert in this issue. KS 66401 , Paul Waggoner, 600 E 73rd, Hutch , . > inson KS 67502' Sophia Grothe, 15075 Lake Crossing II....._.....;H~E;,;;L.;..P ..;.W..;.A,;,;"N,;,;"T;;.;E0;"",...__ 1 YOUTH MEMBERSHIPS Rd, Wamego KS 66547 Laurina Hannan, 901 Poplar St, Wa My great-great-grandmother was Shelby Adams, 13175 Laux Rd, mego KS 66547 Polly Gregg, sister ofJosiah Gregg. I Westmoreland KS 66549 Stephanie Haug, 19215 Old Post Rd, would like to know if anyone has in- . Ashley Arp, 4805 Liberty Hall Rd, Wamego KS 66547 formation about Polly Gregg, her Junction City KS 66441 Brian Helstab, 106 N Jackson, Junc- husband James Walker Lewis, and Bailey Bettencourt, 14975 Lake ,tion City KS 66441 especially his father Nathaniel' Crossing Rd, Wamego KS 66547 Joshua Hurla, PO Box 105, Paxico Lewis. They were buried in the Mandi Blenn; '11420 Christian Rd,' 'KS 66526 ' Lewis-Gregg Cemetery in Independ , , Westmoreland KS 66549 Colby Jackson, 16540 Cameron Cir, ence, MO, located on the original, Chelsea Boatwright, 16375 6th St Wamego KS 66547 . Lewis family homestead. The Civil . Rd, Wamego K.S 66547 . Ian Jacobson, 409 Redwood, Wame War Battle of the Little Blue was Ashley Bowers, 616 McClure St, ,go KS 66547 fought at this site in 1864. Nathaniel Junctioq City KS66441 Teresia Jennings, 602 Broadway St, Lewis was the first Revolutionary Reid Bowser, 17090 Neff Rd, Wa- Belvue KS 66407 . 'mego KS 66547. -. War soldier buried in Jackson Coun Deondra Johnson, 336 Robin Hood ty' MO, in 1826, We are also looking Brennon Briggs, 5100 Pine Lane, Dr, Junction City KS 66441 ' Wamego KS 66547 Alicia Kilian, 17110 Ebel Rd, Wame . ' for the name ofhis wife and complete Alison Burton, 2203 Catcreek, Wa- list of their children. Any informa go KS 66547 , mego KS 66Q47 . Chelsea King,. 235 W Ash, Junction tion about Nathaniel Lewis and his Courtney Carley, 3970 Appleyard City KS 66441 family will be welcome..Thank you. Rd, Wamego KS 66547 Nicole Lacey, 16125 Westerly Mark Wealand Lacey Carr, 13905 Caw Rd, Junction Heights Dr, Wamego KS 66547 523 NE Tudor Rd #9 City KS 66441 Dlonna Lankard, 17900 Military Lee's SummifMO 64086 Trey Chaffin, 4700 Tabor Valley Rd, Camp Rd, Wamego KS 66547 Manhattan KS 66502 Brittany Lawrence, 335' Kiowa Ct I_...... ;N..;,;E;.;,W.;....;;.;SF~TA;..;..;.;M~E;.;.;M.;.;;B;.;;,E,;,;,;RS;....~I Rebecca Chamberlin, 36888 Ceme #1, Junction City KS 66441 , teryRd, Paxico KS 66526 Marinna Lind, 1206 15th St, Wame This list includes new member Marie Chasser, 13318 Woodland Dr, go KS 66547 ships received since the last issue. Wamego KS 66547 ' James Manning, 1015 14th St' #3, Those received after this'printing Trevor Clark, 5300 Jamie Circle, Wamego KS 66547 will appear in the next issue. Ifthere Wamego KS 66547 Ryan Mullins, 4628 Deer Creek Rd, is an error. in this information, Candace Cooper, 515 W Pine St, Wamego KS 66547 . please send corrections to the editor. Junctio.n City KS 66441 Skylar Myers, 3770 Milton Circle, St I We thank you for your support. Alyssa Cover, 1248 Jefferson, Junc- George KS 66535 BUSINESS MEMBERSHIPS tiQuCity KS 66441 . Caleb Nelsen, 1507 6th St, Wamego. . Van Dyk Insurance Ageny, PO Box Justin Davis, PO Box 118, Paxico KS . KS 66547 66526 ; 327, Rocky Ford CO 81067 Justin Noe, 4584 Horizon Tr, Wame Molly Delay, 702 Adam Dr, Wamego go KS 66547 PATRON MEMBERSHIPS KS 66547 Ryan Pachta, 4615 Scotch Pine Cr, Jon Bauman, 2708 Rosedale, Dallas Alyssa Donoho, 510 Poplar, Wamego ,Wamego KS 66547 TX 75205, KS 6654;7 'Joshua Parker, 3708 Katherine Cir- FAMILY MEMBERSHIPS Charele Duncan, 604 Chestnut, Wa- cle, Manhattan KS 66503 / Annette Gray, Box 835, Markerville, mego KS 66547 Angie Patrick, 203 Grant, St George Alberta, Canada TOM 1MO Mary Ebert, 6240 Salzer Rd, Wame KS 66535 Robert & Anne Jones, PO Box 7, Hol .' go KS 66547 Amy Patterson, 13505 Chapman, St comb KS 67851 Kate Edgar, 1817 Commanche, George KS 66535 Melvin, & Carol. Schleich, 33807 Junction City KS 66441 Ashley Peters, 812 Ash St, Wamego State Hwy 12, Trinidad CO 81082 Kaitlyn Ekart, 1201 17th St, Wame- KS 66547 . " February 2005 Wagon Tracks 27 Published by UNM Digital Repository, 2005 23 Wagon Tracks, Vol. 19 [2005], Iss. 2, Art. 1 Hudson Philip, 16214 Sapphire Ln, T_R_A_'L_C_A_L_EN_D_A_R ' tember 11-30, 2005, following the Wamego KS 66547 I...__ MountainRoute. This trek is limited Kaylee Pittenger, PO Box 401, Wa Everyone is invited to send no to 50 riders. For details, see the web mego KS 66547 tices for this section; provide loca site at Santa Fe Trail Association •• •• IC'-~ ,...... , J NONPROFIT ORGANIZAnON PO Box 31 U.S. POSTAGE Woodston, KS67675 v ~rT!v PAID PERM/TNO.2 Change Service Requested WOODSTON KS 67675 , 28 Wagon Tracks February 2005 ~\ i i https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wagon_tracks/vol19/iss2/1 24 i