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 . of the ri-ver, which he came nearrunning into. He now knew that he had turned the animalsback in the bend, where they could run in a circle till tiredenough to stop. He did not return to camp till after daylight and didnot see any Indians, but plenty of their tracks in the dustyroad where the train had turned off to make camp. A count 166 PIONEERING THE WEST proved that no animals
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 . of the ri-ver, which he came nearrunning into. He now knew that he had turned the animalsback in the bend, where they could run in a circle till tiredenough to stop. He did not return to camp till after daylight and didnot see any Indians, but plenty of their tracks in the dustyroad where the train had turned off to make camp. A count 166 PIONEERING THE WEST proved that no animals liad got away and camp moved just try and imagine the thoughts and feelings after thecontact with the Indian, not knowing of his actions, or whenhel %ould hear the twang of his bowstring and feel the pointof his arrow. No doubt but the Indian was expecting thewhite man to shoot, when he could see by the flash of the gunwhere he was and return the fire with greater success thantaking chances. But alls well that ends well. The place where this happened could be located by readingFathers journal giving a description of the camps and coun-try along the Piatt River. This was a few years after Ho^v Salt Lake Has Grov»n. 26.—TABY WE-PUP. In the early days of Grantsville, in Tooele valley, therewas an Indian chief of a band of Go-Shutes, whose countrywas from Salt Lake valley on the east, to Granite Rock onthe desert on the west, and from Simpsons Springs on thesouth, to the Great Salt Lake on the north. This Indian was a great diplomat, and always claimed tobe a good friend of the whites, who were trying to establishtheir homes in-his country. There were frequent raids on thesettlers stock, when small bands of twenty or more w^ould bestolen and driven off, supposedly b}^ hostile Indians. Whenthis happened a delegation of the whites would visit Tabyscamp, which could always be found within a few miles ofGrantsville. At tlje request of the whites he would agree
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