Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . ere they cut acrosscountry, to avoid canyons, to the Uncompahgre River onabout latitude 38° 30, and followed down the Uncompahgreto the Gunnison. Down the latter they went to the to the Grand till they got a little below 39°, theyleft it and crossed, on a westerly course, the sterile plateaubetween the Grand and Green, arriving at what is nowGunnison Valley, Green River, in Utah. Captain Gunnisonon striking the Spanish trail,
Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . ere they cut acrosscountry, to avoid canyons, to the Uncompahgre River onabout latitude 38° 30, and followed down the Uncompahgreto the Gunnison. Down the latter they went to the to the Grand till they got a little below 39°, theyleft it and crossed, on a westerly course, the sterile plateaubetween the Grand and Green, arriving at what is nowGunnison Valley, Green River, in Utah. Captain Gunnisonon striking the Spanish trail, coming through this locality,from Santa Fe to Los Angeles, followed it and crossed theGreen at the old, regular, crossing of this trail; latitude (ac-cording to Gunnison) 38° 57 26, but Fremont, endeavouringto work more to the south, swung off in that direction, de-scended over some cliffs to the Green, and crossed it near themouth of the San Rafael. Without great labour and riskhe could not have gone farther down Green River than this(except in boats) because the deep, winding canyon, named byPowell Labyrinth, begins at the San Rafael. From this. Little Fire Hole Falls Characteristic of hundreds of Rocky Mountain streamsPhotograph by United States Geological Survey A Pathfinder 439 stream up to the exit of the Green from the jaws of GrayCanyon, some distance above the present town of Blake,(the crossing of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway) thevalley is ruggedly picturesque, being studded with numerousstriking buttes. For a day or two, we camped, in 1871, at themouth of the San Rafael, and Major Powell named anattractive architecturally formed butte a little above, afterme. There were many evidences that the place was afavourite resort of the Utes, and even at that time therewere no settlers anywhere in the region. From here Fre-mont went up the San Rafael, north-westerly to about Tid-well, or 39°, and then turned abruptly south and south-westalong the eastern edge of the
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