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63. Williams, Diary, p. 33.
64. Jackson, Wagon Roads, p. 21.
65. Martin, Yuma Crossing, p. 113; Williams,
Diary, p. 38.
66. FarkhiW,AntoineLeroux,p.85.
67. FerolEgan,TheElDoradoTrail(NewYork:
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970), p. 139.
68. Emory, Reports, p. 100; Parkhill, Antoine Leroux,p.85. Unlikemanyofthemountainmen, Leroux was literate, wealthy, and later served on the New Mexico Territorial Organization Convention. Larson, Data Base, p. 173, adds a Phillip Thompson
as another citizen guide.
69. William Byram Pace, Journal of William
Byram Pace, 1846, Mormon Battalion Papers, LDS Library, Salt Lake City, p. 49; Tyler, Mormon Bat- talion, p. 125.
70. Young, Cooke, p. 194.
71. Martin, Yuma Crossing, p. 113; Samuel Hol- lister Rogers, Journal of Samuel Hollister Rogers, 1846, Mormon Battalion Papers, LDS Library, Salt Lake City, p. 99 (hereafter cited as Rogers, Journal). Smith, Journal, passim, repeatedly reported the taking of a variety of wild game.
72. Gracy and Rugeley, “An Englishman,” p. 146. 73. Parkhill,AntoineLeroux,p.88.
74. Robert S. Bliss, “The Journal of Robert S.
Bliss, With the Mormon Battalion,” Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 4 (July and Oct., 1931), p. 77; Henry G. Boyle, Journal of Henry G. Boyle, 1846, Brigham Young University Library, Provo, p. 19 (hereafter cited as Boyle, Journal). William Coray, Journal of William Coray, 1846, Mormon Battalion Papers, LDS Library, Salt Lake City, n.p. (hereafter cited as Coray, Journal); Elijah Elmer, Diary of Elijah Elmer, 1846, Mormon Battalion Papers, San Diego Historical Society, p. 14; William Hyde, Journal of William Hyde, 1846, Mormon Battalion Papers, LDS Library, Salt Lake City, p. 96; Albert Smith, Reminiscences and Journals of Albert Smith, 1846, Mormon Battalion Papers, LDS Library, Salt Lake
City, p. 34; Tyler, Mormon Battalion, pp. 190-191; Senate Reports, 31st Congress, Special Session Ex- ecutive Document 2 (1849), p. 14 (hereafter cited as Senate Reports, Executive Document 2).
Cooke specifically records 55 men, and Coray was one of two to agree with this number. Most of the Mormons who kept a journal or later wrote of their experiences claimed only 50. Tyler states 55 and quotes Lieutenant Willis, the leader of the rejected
group, as indicating 56 men, but only identifies 50, leaving unlisted Willis and the 3 Saints who died
before returning to Santa Fe. Two Saints, Albert Smith (one of at least nine Smiths in the Battalion) and Henry Boyle, clearly set the initial figure at 60. Oneofthesourcesofdifferencemaybespeculated from Bliss’s journal when he names three men from his Company B mess (Elijah N. Freeman, Thomas Bingham, and Francis T. Whitney) who were sent back, but only one shows up on Tyler’s list of 50. Likewise, Hyde noted in his journal that 10 men were sent back from Company B but Tyler, probably using Williams’ list, names only seven. Similarly, Sergeant
Elmer states that 13 men of his Company C were among those rejected but Tyler records only 12. Obviously there is some confusion here; however, the official number entered by Cooke will be used.
75. Rogers, Journal, p. 99; Tyler, Mormon Bat- talion, pp. 118, 143. Tyler lists Willis’ name alter- nately as William W. and Wesley W., and the former was arbitrarily selected as correct.
76. Smith, Journal, p. 7. Woolsey was the only one
of the escort to rejoin the Battalion, albeit tem-
porarily.
77. FrankAlfredColder,ThomasA.Bailey,and
J. Lyman Smith (eds.), 77n? March of the Mormon Battalion from Council Bluffs to California, Taken from the Journal ofHenry Standage (New York: The
Century Co., 1928), p. 183 (hereafter cited as Golder, Bailey, and Smith, Henry Standage ); Senate Reports, Executive Document 2, p. 14.
78. Ibid.
79. Tyler, Monnon Battalion, p. 192. How this critical error in the issue of rations could have oc- curred and not been protested is beyond reasonable conjecture.
80. Larson, Data Base, pp. 44, 74, and 78.
81. Bieber, Southwestern Trails, p. 94-96. The reduction from the original complement of 25 “offi- cial” wagons was unexplained but probably was a result of consumption of stores to be transported and trading for lighter-weight vehicles.
82. Coray, Journal, n.p.; Tyler, Mormon Battalion, pp. 132, 281. Lydia Hunter died in San Diego April 27, 1847, about two weeks after bearing a son, Diego Hunter.
83. Senate Reports, Executive Document 2, p. 15. The three additional men, added to the previous 55 for a total of 58, keeps Cooke’s statistics at least consistent.
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