Fort Davy Crockett January 23 Trappers and Indians Fight Over Horses at Bleak Colorado Outpost Play by Richard W
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Territorial News www.territorialnews.com www.facebook.com/TerritorialNews Vol. 32, No. 1 Your Connection to the Old West January 9, 2019 Next Issue Wednesday Fort Davy Crockett January 23 Trappers and Indians Fight Over Horses at Bleak Colorado Outpost Play By Richard W. Kimball center of the park, is slow Arizona Trivia and placid until it leaves See Page 2 for Details ort Davy Crockett the park in the south and was established in plunges down through the This Week’s Fthe northwest corner Lodore Canyon. No one is of Colorado about 1836. sure how Browns Hole got Question: Well, it was not a real fort. its name. Some say it was It was more or less a trading named after a French-Cana- In 1968, the Colorado post and possibly not even dian named Baptiste Brown River Basin that. It was constructed at who might have built a cabin Project Act Browns Hole on the bank of nearby. Others say it may authorized the the Green River near Vermil- have been named after such construction of a lion Creek by three moun- William Craig Kit Carson men as Bible-Back Brown, 336-mile-long tain men—William Craig, Old Cut Rocks Brown, or canal that’s better Philip Thompson and Previtt Rocky Mountains. The oth- from Fort St. Vrain and Fort even Bo’sun Brown. But it known as what? Sinclair. They named the ers were Fort Uncompahgre Vasquez. There was also remains a mystery. No one (21 Letters) “fort” in honor of the leg- in Colorado and Fort Uintah some intercourse with the really knows. endary frontiersman Davy in Utah. Hudson’s Bay Company at A large group of free Crockett, who was killed in The three partners were Fort Hall. trappers arrived at Fort Texas during the siege at the not considered good busi- Browns Hole is a beau- Davy Crockett in the fall of Index Alamo a year before. The nessmen. In fact, the fort tiful mountain meadow. It 1838 planning to spend the three men formed a business seemed to depend on outsid- has been favored by Indians winter there. The group in- Arizona Kid..................11 partnership to run a frontier ers for trade goods and ac- and wildlife for centuries be- cluded many well-known Arizona Trivia................2 trading post to be used by cess to markets. It is gener- cause of its mild winters. It trappers like Joe Meek, Kit Business Directory........22 both Indian and white trap- ally believed that Fort Davy soon became a favorite win- Carson, Doc Newell, and Classifieds....................22 pers. For a short while, Fort Crockett was probably sup- tering ground for mountain Joseph Walker. They arrived Jim Harvey.....................2 Crockett was one of only plied with trade goods by men too, because its broad shortly after the last Rocky 150 Years Ago..............18 three trading posts known to occasional visits by travel- grassy fields could support Mountain Rendezvous that exist on the west side of the ing trading parties sent out large herds of horses without was held the previous sum- crowding. The park is about mer farther up the Green In Their Own Words 35 miles in length and six River. The Shoshone Indi- miles wide with mountains ans called the stream the on all sides. The Green Riv- Dancing in Chicago er, which passes through the (See Misery on Page 6) British visitor to Chi- present one’s self in before cago wrote in 1833, ladies of an evening, yet, in The Mormon A“Chicago consists of my earnestness to see life on 150 wooden houses, placed the frontier, I easily allowed Battalion irregularly on both sides of all objections to be overruled the river. .There is already by my companions, and we he story of the Mor- Searching for someplace a place of considerable accordingly drove to the mon Battalion, its to practice their religion trade, supplying salt, tea, house in which the ball was T formation and its free of persecution, Smith coffee, sugar, and clothing to given. It was a frame build- difficult journey west is and his followers moved a large tract of the country ing, one of the few as yet to not widely known. How- westward and established Charles Fenno Hoffman to the south and west; and be found in Chicago; which, ever, the battalion’s march the city of Nauvoo, Illi- when connected with the ering. Here is his account of although one of the most an- through New Mexico, Ari- nois. Near here, Smith was navigable point of the river the event. cient French trading-posts on zona, and California was an murdered in 1844. Mem- Illinois, by canal or railway, the Lakes, can only date its integral part of the history bers of his church, now cannot fail of rising to im- We had not been here growth as a village since the of America’s “Manifest in the thousands, realized portance.” an hour before an invitation Indian war, eighteen months Destiny.” that they would have to At about this same time, to a public ball was courte- since. Joseph Smith had move farther west, beyond New Yorker Charles Fenno ously sent to us by the man- When I add that the pop- founded the Church of Je- the boundaries of the Unit- Hoffman visited the city. agers; and though my soiled ulation has quintupled since sus Christ of Latter-day ed States, to practice their While there, Hoffman at- and travel-worn riding dress Saints in western New York (See March on Page 8) tended a formal social gath- was not exactly the thing to (See Ball on Page 4) State during the late 1820s. Page 2 Territorial News January 9, 2019 Sun Tracks Arizona - Web of Time The Track of the Sun across the Sky leaves its shining message, let molds, gun powder and Illuminating, Strengthening, flints, Green River knives, Warming us who are here, Jim Harvey buffalo robes, glass beads showing us we are not alone, we are yet ALIVE! The Arizona Trail and frontier whiskey for And this fire! Our fire! Shall not die! horses, mules and woolen -Atoni (Choctaw) The limestone rock for- surviving memory stick blankets. The whiskey was mation on which sightseers records an 1833 meteor a mixture of pepper-fla- stand when they view Ari- shower and, after that, epi- vored raw alcohol colored Captain’s Bar Presents zona’s Grand Canyon from demics, battles with enemy with chewing tobacco. The its south rim was created tribes, and the arrival of the Navajos called him Bi- ARIZONA TRIVIA before there were any di- telegraph and the railroad. lagaana San, which meant This Week’s Question: In 1968, the Colorado River Basin nosaurs, mammals or birds Old American in English. Project Act authorized the construction of a 336-mile-long anywhere on earth. At Canyon Diablo Modern automobile travel- canal that’s better known as what? north of the Mogollon Rim ers pass right by the place (21 Letters) Southern Arizona’s and west of Winslow, a on Interstate 40. white merchant from New Last Issue’s Question: What historic Mormon fort located Akimel O’odham Indians in northwest Ari zona is now a National Monument? once remembered their his- Mexico traded with Na- The last meal served Answer: Pipe Spring tory by carving figures on vajo ranchers the summer to a convicted murderer sticks of wood. The oldest of 1852. He swapped bul- before he was hanged at Congratulations! You got the right answer! 1886 Prescott consisted Leo Achin, Keith Adams, Sid Clarke, Larry Damer, Doyle of breaded chicken with Ekey, Richard Fordyce, Kevin Gartley, Robert Lidgett, Roger cream sauce, fried oys- Ringer, Bill Riordan, Marilyn Smith, William Smith, Gary ters, lamb chops, steak and Swanson, Richard Valley. mushrooms, pancakes with How to Play jelly, potatoes, bread and Letters are hidden in the advertisements. Find the letters to spell the an- coffee. After his feast, he swer. Submit your answer with your name, address & phone number on a rode to the gallows sitting postcard for the current issue’s question to Territorial Publishing, P.O. Box on his coffin carried by a 1690, Apache Junction, AZ 85217. Look for the answer in the next issue. buckboard. To have your name listed in the next issue, cards must be received no later than 10 days past the current issue of the Territorial News. For example: submitted answers to the 1/9/19 question, deadline is 1/19/19. 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