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ie EDMUND KINYON in this issue writes of Indian history previous to our time. Signs can be
cat found in the Sierra range such as these recent photos of simple geometric forms, °
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= NOTE NUMBER FIVE: Charles Fayette McGlasham, known as 1870's decade and the revised and standard edition in 1880. known nothing until many generatic
the "General," who wrote and published the original account of Charles Fayette McGlasham became a lawyer, a real estate The domicile of the girl is d
Es the Donner Party to appear in book form, was an unusual and in promoter, participated in organizing a treasure hunt in GuataWorld" and the legend sets forth
=~ some respects a remarkable character. His father, in widowermala, practiced and wrote as an amateur entomologist. But ever alone by her people for several
hood at Janesville, Wisconsin, gathered up his eight children he continued to delve deeper into the hidden aspects of the Dongathering acorns.
and set out for California by the plains route. That was in 1849, ner Party. He died at his home on the hill above Truckee's One day the girl was_so fri
but because of scant resources, necessitating many starts and Main Street in 1931. Close by stands his cherished "rocking * noise outside her wickiup that sh
it required five years to complete the journey. The single stone,” a natural wonder which seems to embody the principle she was about to crack with her
purposed of the impractical father was the care and education of perpetual motion. The museum which he collected holds instrange man came in holding a b
of his children. It is recorded that marriages, births and deaths —_ terest for thousands of visitors annually. face. Although terribly alarmed,
; marked the slow progress westward, A halt was finally made in Shortly before his death "General" McGlasham went through acorn soup, He ate, and bade h
Mendocino County, California. his profuse files of notes and letters pertaining to-the Donner journey. With Indian stoicism, sh
It was there the Charles Fayette attained manhood and was Party and with ruthless hand destroyed the material to the last tion.
sent east for three years of seminary schooling. Returningto scrap, The next morning they start:
California, he became a school teacher, first at Placerville, After the lapse of a half century the McGlasham book was camping each night where the man
then in the raw, unlicked railroad and lumbering townof reproduced photographically at the instance of George H. Hinkle came to what was apparently the
Truckee, His only inheritance was this deathbed message from and Bliss McGlasham Hinkle, together with a comprehensive were blankets and obsidians (cut
= his fater: "Tell Fayette always to be a foreword. Previously it had afforded a basis for a half score glass) all about. Dried meat was a
rs In Truckee McGlasham aspired to the editorship of the of Donner books, and the end is not yet. "Sit down,” the Don Juan
town's weekly paper, the ownership of which, it appears had "Don't be afraid to eat.”
long been the pawn of poker games. The violent death of the Chapter II The quantity of food amazed
current editor gave the thirty-year-old teacher his chance. Up STORIES OF THE ABORIGINES stand how it had been obtained.
to that time he had heard only casually of the stark tragedy lightly, disdaining to eat the dric
oO = which had been enacted at the doorstep of the future Truckee. Did an unknown Indian of the California tradition, ages said, was for fresh: meat. The
He printed such scraps of the tales of the stricken emigrants before the coming of white men, discover the secret of explothe story:
as came his way and thereby started a flood of letters andin= sives and fashion some sort of gun for his hunting? Or, since "The man felt around in his
quiries, The Donner Party seemed to have ties in every state it is fairly well established that the California Indians are of age.' This he carried with him
of the Union. It was then that a book project took form, But the Mongolian de were such weapons in some distant era (or curious that she followed at a :
deeper his investigations, the more appalling the theme became. knowledge thereof) brought across Bering Straits and passed woods a band of elk were feedin
McGlasham, in desperation at one period, abandoned the from father to son until they reached the California ? the girl watched him from the c
project (as he thought) and took an editorial position at Santa Such speculations boot little, yet among the traditions of the he up to?" she kept asking her
Barbara, again stepping into the shoes of an editor whohad diminishing tribesmen of California are hazy references to favorable place, he did this ws
died violently. To fill space he undertook the writing of a serial hunting devices other than the bow and arrow and the slingshot. and the elk fell down."
: of pastoral California. The name, "Maze," was evidently well The best version of such aid to game-taking was obtained a few The. girl was so alarmed th
chosen, for the story became so involved that it was only years ago from "Molasses," an aged woman of the Chilula and awaited the coming of her ca
i: by an arbitrary burst of "blood and pathos” that he could wind tribe, who related the story from the standpoint of a captive he put the "package." "Til do tt
it up. That achieved he packed his satchel and hurried back to girl. Wandering and inane, as are all California Indian legends, proceeded to dress the meat. Thi:
3 Truckee to revive his Donner Party history. The first publicathe describes something strangely like “While the man was thus en
tion expanded from newspaper sketches, appeared in the later the firearms of which the tribesmen were supposed to have "package," followed after her c:
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