The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-13
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teau ever since it was lifted up above
the other lands about it. The woods
and pastures shelterF and feed them.
And they find ravines and gentler
bench slopes where in winter time they
can make their way down into the
gorge when winter approaches.
Wild horses roam in bands over this
country They are among the few
herds of these creatures left in Amer
lea The iron grey of the Mexican
mustang is in evidence in every herd.
Their ancestors must have lived in
the place as long as the deer, and their
numbers have been recruited by strays
from the bands of the cattle ranches
in the country about.
They are wilder than the deer these
horses You may sigh a band and,
by caution, approach closely. Then a
guarding stallion lifts an arched neck
and shifts the tainted wind. He whin-
mics and they all gallop away over a
hill crest into another canyon
Squirrels and feathered game live all
over the place. OF the former there is
a great black squirrel with a white
tail. These animals get rich feed on
acorns in the oak groves. Pheasants
and partridgeS are unmoleSted. Bear
and many smaller animals go through
the brush in the thicker parts of the
woods.
With all it's forests and all its game
and flowers. the plateau has few
few old timers To travel over the
plateau in any degree of comfort. to
say nothing of safety, you need a
guide, one VINO knows the country well
through actual experience. Otherwise
the party is apt to fare hard if its
members don't undergo actual suffer-
ing.
adventures in the Past.
An instance of this sort-and it gives
glimpse into the hearts of some of
these men who have fought nature and
Indians in this country[happened back
in 80. Dan Seegmiller was guiding a
party into the plateau. He had lived
there many years He had undergone
hardshipS and had been a frontier
peace officer. He was fighter with
weapons and at the same time he was
a man of piety according to his lights.
He stood high in the Mormon church.
his protegeS came from paved streets
They got lost. They needed water
That makes d hard combination i'm a
country such as this and, as the hot
afternoon Wore on and neither track
nor spring We're found, SeegmiIler be
gan TO realize that he had hard prop
osition on his hands.
But he had faith of a sort which
many men who go to church i'm sober
black don't possess So he prayed He
dropped on his knees, and he wrapped
himself UP in his deVotionS. He forgot
little things like hurting a mans feel
ngs, and his prayer ran something
like this.
"Oh. God. 1 AMIDST. And there is
no water. L am in tight place.
need water and 1 need it bad. It
isn't for myself that I care. but I've
got a couple of tenderfeet along. and
they can't hold out much longer. Now.
Lord, this has come to a case where
there can't be any fooling. We got to
have that water"
A few minutes afterward. almost
with the ending of the old mans
prayer, one of the party ran on a cat
tie pool They boiled the water ana
mace coffee; and in little while they
found their camp. The tenderfeet were
ready to forgive any reference of a
oisparaging nature that had been made
to them and their condition.
Men like this have Travelled the pIa-
teau ever since the day the Morfnons
first came into Utah. They are hard.
grizzled men. They have stood thirst
hunger and hardship. Some Of them
have fought Indians and men of their
own race And their fights were not
ordinary affairs with fists They often
ended in death. For all that the deem
root of religion seems to have fxeej
itself in their natures, and they can
pray as hard as they fought Theirs
IS that same peculiar. deep-seated
faith-fanaticism some call (which
seems to have been In evidence when
ever men carried their Bibles with
them into the wilderness. OF this sort
OF men We're made the garrisons OF the