Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-02-09

| hNt"A' AtAeHhA wan NlNhtNu 10 "a kitIl-
tory.
There were wars between the first
white settlers in nprthern Arizona
and the Navajo indians long before
the United States troops we're chasing
the Apaches across the deserts OF the
south, and had heard OF forts still
standing that were built In the fifties.
II was to find some OF the dim clues
10 this lost history that | had been
planning for months 70 get into this
unknown Arizona.
| could get no information rs to
roads, water, or the general lay OF the
country, except now and then some
warning not 20 go, from some STOCK
man. ar some sheriff who had chased
a criminal into the mountains across
1.-THE Colorado. However, / had to have
the stray history, no matter how hard
II might be to round up, SO ! hired
guide at Flagstaff and with his stout
travelling wagon and a pony team that
could stand the rough roads started
out
We carried grain for the horses for
a month, a water Barrel 10 tide MS
over the desert stretches which we
were told might be long. and the light.
est camp outfit that Il seemed possl
bic TO get on with. The road ran
northeast 20 Lees Ferry. through the
San Francisco snountain country.
which Coronado had named and nearly
every later explorer OF note had
visited.
II took MS through the very heart
OF the Painted desert. through it's
Widest part which tourists aud trav-
elors seldom see. remembered that
fadre Garcos and Padre Escalante
mad both seen the Little Colorado
river which we crossed near where
the government Is now putting i'm a
me wagon bridge. They had named
the river variously the River of st
Peter Flax River" and Little Colo.
RADIO which in lis translation has
been the name TO survive.
We found many ruins of pre.his-
toric peoples in the desert and some
OF the finest pictured rocks that have
ever seen. We stopped al the Moqui
village OF Moon COple, which has
romantic biz Of history. and Is ruled
4 by queen" Naive, so old no one
knows her exact age, but q must be
near IS. She is truly a grand old wo.
man with a face as fine and strong
as that Of an Indian Julia Ward Howe
When the Nayaios drove all the
other Moquis away from this place
years ago Naive stayed and held her
right 10 The land aud springs. and I'M
ally made such truce with the Nor.
mon settlers that they built a fort and
/ protected the MoQui right To the fields
/ below Natives people came back and
sne has been their leader for forty
/ years or more Quito lately. when the
Mormon lands were bought for the
navajo Indian reservation. these Mo.
/ aus we're given the land which their
bold old queen had held and they are
me most prosperous Of their tribe
TUBA City, now an Indian school
and agency for the Nayaios. was the
Mormon colony OF which Lot Smith
was the famous bishop. Seven miles
beyond We came TO a wonderful line
OF l0nlbardly poglars Of huge size.
ana beautiful orchard loaded with
ifuit. tucked into the cleft laws of
| red sandstone canyon. THIS is Moen
Avi the home and farthest retreat OF
John u. Lee IN the years following
me Mountain Meadow massacre ana
before he was arrested and tried for
leading that awful thing.
5see's Forty was established By him
about the same time aud was a noted
point for crossing the Colorado river.
y was known to and used by the Nav
ajo Indians and oy the Pah-Utos boz
TORE the white settlers came. Tho
canyon wallis at this point are more
IrhlN colorod--a deep. rlCwlrg ver-
milIion red-than at any other place
me Whole length Of the rtor Thls
q one of the points where Major
fowell found help In his trip down
/ the river
The old Lee home. lying on the
wedge OF level land whore pnh-reah
creek enters the Colorado, Is little
changed since the days when one OF
Loo's wives. with her children lived
mere She was brave, strong wo-
man, and yet the loneliness and dan
ger must have made her long some
'imeS 20 get away AZ one time
hand OF NavaiOs, ON the Warpath,
came 10 the place and demanded food
Whlch she gave them. Then they
otmped FOR the night IN front OF her
niue log cabin, and Co awe them with
her tenrlossuess she took her babies
ana went ont and SPREAD her blankets
beside the indian GA np-ire and slept
ihore an night. In the morning they
shook her hands and called her
brave squaw aud role away leaving
hcr unharnol. but her fr'cncs say
mat only her courage saved aer and
her children from death
a hundred yards back Of the little
cabin Is small graveyard IN which
years later another brave mother who
was living alone az the Ferry. a hum
nrod miles from the nearest settle
mant loid four OF her iittle girls away.
A stranger family. moving over the
TRAIL To whom she extended noighbor.
| Is kindness, brought dlptheria infcc-
/ ton and went on their way without
! telling her that they had Just lost a
! hid from the sickness on the road.
Some years later the husband OF
his woman was made "a hopeless GRIP.
J lio ny fan FROM % wagon. Then
she ana a davRntoi loaded the heavy
] wagons win their pusehold goods
/ alone and wi'hout help drove out
over the VIA and dtsolate road over
desert and mount. ns 90 the nearest
fettlomont stll aCaln az this samo
| lonely ranch mnthgr and daughter
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