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(including the writer) were located at our lonely ranch, eight miles south of Vernon in Tooele County. Chiefs Tabby and Greenjacket, with their band of some twenty-five or thirty Goshutes, had been camped near us all summer; but at the approach of winter they moved into winter quarters, in the sheltered country a mile or so to the eastward. Earnestly the two chiefs invited us to move with them, indicating with expressive gestures our wind-swept location and the gloom of coming storms. "Too much W H O O - O O - O O ! " they said. I know we should have been safe in their company, even in those Indian "scare" times—but the white man must have his house. That winter the snowdrifts were level with the top of our "story-and-a-half" log cabin. The "Tabby" referred to is the same Indian who seven years before, shot and killed Joe Vernon at the present site of Vernon town. He was altogether unlike Greenjacket, though my father got along with him all right.
FATHER ESCALANTE. AND THE UTAH INDIANS (Continuing:
"Some Useful Early Utah Indian References.") By J. Cecil Alter
(Concluded from "Diary and Travels of Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Fray Silvestre Valez De Escalante, to discover a route from the Presidio of Sante Fe, New Mexico, to Monterey in Southern California," in "The Catholic Church In Utah," by Dr. W. R. Harris.) "16th day of October." "We left the Arroyo (Near La Verkin, Utah) with the intention of going south towards the Colorado river; but having gone only a little way we heard some people calling to us, and turning to see where the sound came from, we saw eight Indians on the tops of the hills where we had halted, and which we had just left, which are in the middle of a plain full of chalk and a kind of mica." "We returned by these plains, giving directions that the interpreter should follow us, as he had gone on ahead. We came to the foot of the mountains, and we gave them to understand that they should come down without fear, because we came in peace and were friends. With this assurance they came down, showing us some strings of chalchihuite (A small shell brought inland from the coast by the Indians and worn as an ornament) each one with a colored shell, which set us thinking, because the strings of chalchihuite looked to us like rosaries, and the shells like medals of the saints. We remained with them a short time;
