Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878 : Major Howard Egan's diary, also thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians, their traits, civil and savage, and part of autobiography, inter-related to his father's . nii •itr lilt *. Deep Creek ranch ami mail station. Left to right, H. R. Esaus residence,drivers sleeping rooms, the station ^Tith rest rooms and eating rooms. Line and our principal home. Deep Creek was headquartersfor many years, where Father and his sons were quite success-ful in raising hay and grain for the mail stations and inranching. The home station eating house was also
Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878 : Major Howard Egan's diary, also thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians, their traits, civil and savage, and part of autobiography, inter-related to his father's . nii •itr lilt *. Deep Creek ranch ami mail station. Left to right, H. R. Esaus residence,drivers sleeping rooms, the station ^Tith rest rooms and eating rooms. Line and our principal home. Deep Creek was headquartersfor many years, where Father and his sons were quite success-ful in raising hay and grain for the mail stations and inranching. The home station eating house was also kept andthe stations along the road supplied with beef and twenty cows were kept for milking, which chore fell tothe lot of the Avriter and brother Hyrum, as well as the cowboyjob of riding the range for beef cattle, hunting horses andherding sheep, as well as helping on the farm, plowing, plant-ing and irrigating, hauling hay, etc. Father was superintendent on the Overland Mail Line andall these activities were carried on successfully until May 10th,1869, when the railroad was completed on the northern route,north of Salt Lake, leaving Deep Creek almost entirely out ofthe general line of traffic, until of recent
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