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Page: of 12
ind Kinyon
count of the Donner
utter not how frankly —
n rightfully be disverdrawn or malign,
as accepted by all .
‘eof border on the inut that is not to say
emes to which those
astaways restored
udged by the social
of well conditioned
of 1949,
MBER THREE; Seworth was appointed First Vigilante Committee, conTrail and Sutter's Fort. The site
nan in June, 1838; ducted a business on the waterin cn the north beak of Boar Ety_
_ Several different rejoined the Navy during er (desi on old maps as
led Oregon on leave the «Civil War and rose to he Bear Creek) about three miles
in September, 1845; rank of Commodore. He died in west of the line separating the
n Francisco on the 1871, "a citizen of prominence." counties of Nevada and Yuba and
er Shark and transThat, then, the strange duality four miles north of the town of
Sag Ap Jan of Selim E, Woodworth. In all Wheatland. This, in brief, is its
that time he of his relationships the onl history:
ed from duty as per Sau tact bs axoaat in the tok In 1844 Pablo Guitteirez seig order." (Order umental fiasco he made of the cured from the Mexican GovernMm records.) It was Donner Relief Expedition. By ment a land grant of 22,000 acthereafter that he what queer twist of mentalitydid’ . res on the north side of Bear
to lead the Donner he assume the childish role River, At.a favorable place he
T "disbanding" the which he enacted? And by what opened a crossing and built some
© resumed duty on reasoning did he maintain the sort of habitation. The grantassumption, apparently throughholder was murdered by bandits
‘epresentative Harout his life, that he was the while operating a mail contract
right, who sought to savior of the Donner Party? No near Monterey, and General Sutcord of We other character of the black ter, as the administrator of his
. of the Navy Dedrama had more of opportunestate, sold the tract to William .
ld me that he found ity and resources than he, and Johnson, one of his retainers, for
e daily movements none did less than he. But a one hundred fifty dollars, Johnce
of the officer (said to be a requirement whether or not on active duty) and that the portion
of it covering the interval of the
relief expedition had been deleted, apparently with a sharp
Woodworth was elected a sensad
cal Scrap Booktouch’ of sentiment reposes in
the fact that Selim E. Woodworth was ason of Samuel Woodauthor of the once-popular ballad, "The Old Oaken Bucbh
NOTE NUMBER FOUR: Johnson's Rancho (or Crossing),
as it did, the founding of Salt Lake City, afforded
during the first year or two of
Overland travel by the Truckee
River route the only haven for
emigrants between the Oregon
Ss
f
son, foreseeing the coming of
emigrant travel, built a number
of cabins, using adobe brick and
cottonwood logs. Soon it became
a stopping place, perhaps sojourning place, for a variegated
company of trappers, herdsmen
and adventurers. By 1845-46 the
name was: known along a thousand miles of trail.
The distance by trail from the
farthest east of the camps of the
Donners to Johnson's is approximately ninety miles and the altitude varies from seven thousand feet to five hundred feet.
Markings of the old trail leading to it can be traced by rutted,
worndown earth, occasional tire
marks on rocks, and by the leshave carried ten thousand wa‘gons. I have found nothing to
substantiate the — hypothesis
which has gained some currency
_ that a portion of the Donner
refugees reached Johnson's by
way of the South and Middle
Yubas and Indian Springs.
‘During 1849-50 the Federal
Government sought to maintain
an army post at a point one
-Mile east of Johnson's, called
Camp Far West. Two companies of U, S. eavalry, commandae
ae RRR ae EEE Sve 9 a
aera =
ss = ss —
Rights reserved by the a
ers placed.a few years ago by a
trail-research party in which I
was included. _
Later writers refer to the lo-.
The Guitteirez Grant, despite
many promotions (a boom town
of range land until 1941 when
the greater part of it was expropriated by the Army to form
Beale Cantonment.
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