. The Pacific tourist . and carried to the nearest post-office on the route. In 1858, it is said, that an Indian massacretook place here, in which 18 emigrants werekilled; and other skirmishes with the gentlered men, were frequently in order. The old emi-grant road is fairly lined with the graves of emi-grants, who perished on their way to the land of finally come to believe it themselves; and thismay account for the many wonderful stories thathave been palmed off on some book-makers, andby them, in turn, hashed up for the travelingpublic. Travelers can always hear all theychoose, but it is we
. The Pacific tourist . and carried to the nearest post-office on the route. In 1858, it is said, that an Indian massacretook place here, in which 18 emigrants werekilled; and other skirmishes with the gentlered men, were frequently in order. The old emi-grant road is fairly lined with the graves of emi-grants, who perished on their way to the land of finally come to believe it themselves; and thismay account for the many wonderful stories thathave been palmed off on some book-makers, andby them, in turn, hashed up for the travelingpublic. Travelers can always hear all theychoose, but it is well to be a little cautious aboutbelieving all they hear. The Maidens Chave.—There is hardly anold resident on this coast, but who has some in-cident to relate in reference to Gravelly Ford. Itwas not only an excellent crossing place, but itwas also a fine camping place, where both manand beast could recruit after the weary days onthe dreary plains. There were wide bottom-lands that offered excellent grazing for stock,. iSNTERING HUMBOLDT CANON. gold, or in returning from the same. There are,also, many of the Shoshoues and Piutes nowliving, who have been made cripples in thesebattles and skirmishes with the will talk about them with their acquaint-ances, and say heap of white men killedthere, but can seldom be induced to say howmany Indians were slain in the same , parties representing each side of thecontending forces have become well acquainted,and now frequently meet each other on friendlyterms. There is a disposition, also, among theseold plainsmen to spin yarns, equal to any oldnavigator that ever lived, and one has to be ex-tremely cautious as to what he believes. Theseold story-tellers are like old Jim Bridger—theywill tell a lie so often and so earnestly, that they and the small brush along the banks of thestream gave excellent shade and firewood. Ona low point of land that juts out toward theriver on the south side of the track, and just
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