FOOTNOTES:[1]Mrs. Powell’s maiden name. (Ed.)[2]Capt. Walter Powell, the Major’s youngest brother. Besides the two Powells, Sumner, Bradley, and Hawkins were ex-soldiers. (Ed.)[3]General Ashley, the fur trader, made his last journey into the Far West before 1835. The man here mentioned must have been someone else, of the same family name. (Ed.)[4]Major Powell had only one arm. (Ed.)[5]Potato tops do make good greens when they are young, but become poisonous as they mature, like poke shoots. (Ed.)[6]Powell afterwards renamed it Frémont River. (Ed.)[7]Geologists would call these rocks metamorphic crystalline schists, with dikes and beds of granite, but we will use the popular name for the whole series—granite.[8]It should be remembered that Major Powell had only one arm. (Ed.)[9]For the miserable fate of these men see forward under date ofSept. 19, 1870. (Ed.)[10]Here the story is continued in September of the following year, 1870. (Ed.)[11]The murder of the two Howlands and Dunn was committed at what is now known as Ambush Waterpocket, south of Mount Dellenbaugh. (Ed.)
[1]Mrs. Powell’s maiden name. (Ed.)
[1]Mrs. Powell’s maiden name. (Ed.)
[2]Capt. Walter Powell, the Major’s youngest brother. Besides the two Powells, Sumner, Bradley, and Hawkins were ex-soldiers. (Ed.)
[2]Capt. Walter Powell, the Major’s youngest brother. Besides the two Powells, Sumner, Bradley, and Hawkins were ex-soldiers. (Ed.)
[3]General Ashley, the fur trader, made his last journey into the Far West before 1835. The man here mentioned must have been someone else, of the same family name. (Ed.)
[3]General Ashley, the fur trader, made his last journey into the Far West before 1835. The man here mentioned must have been someone else, of the same family name. (Ed.)
[4]Major Powell had only one arm. (Ed.)
[4]Major Powell had only one arm. (Ed.)
[5]Potato tops do make good greens when they are young, but become poisonous as they mature, like poke shoots. (Ed.)
[5]Potato tops do make good greens when they are young, but become poisonous as they mature, like poke shoots. (Ed.)
[6]Powell afterwards renamed it Frémont River. (Ed.)
[6]Powell afterwards renamed it Frémont River. (Ed.)
[7]Geologists would call these rocks metamorphic crystalline schists, with dikes and beds of granite, but we will use the popular name for the whole series—granite.
[7]Geologists would call these rocks metamorphic crystalline schists, with dikes and beds of granite, but we will use the popular name for the whole series—granite.
[8]It should be remembered that Major Powell had only one arm. (Ed.)
[8]It should be remembered that Major Powell had only one arm. (Ed.)
[9]For the miserable fate of these men see forward under date ofSept. 19, 1870. (Ed.)
[9]For the miserable fate of these men see forward under date ofSept. 19, 1870. (Ed.)
[10]Here the story is continued in September of the following year, 1870. (Ed.)
[10]Here the story is continued in September of the following year, 1870. (Ed.)
[11]The murder of the two Howlands and Dunn was committed at what is now known as Ambush Waterpocket, south of Mount Dellenbaugh. (Ed.)
[11]The murder of the two Howlands and Dunn was committed at what is now known as Ambush Waterpocket, south of Mount Dellenbaugh. (Ed.)