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19. "The Mormons established their own stage and express from the Missouri border." Paxson, op. cit., p. 461.

20. Fort Bridger was an important trading post west of South Pass named for Jim Bridger, a scout in the party of Capt. Benjamin L. E. Bonneville, a French born officer of the regular United States Army. The Mormon Guide states that the fort was "composed of four log houses and a small enclosure for horses." Clayton, op. cit., p. 17.

21. The Mormon Guide calls this the "Red fork of the Weber river." Clayton, op. cit., p. 19.

22. Ira J. and Sidney S. Willis were among the Mormon workmen employed by Sutter at his flour mill at Natoma at the time gold was discovered in the tailrace of his Coloma sawmill. Reva Holdaway Stanley, "Sutter's Mormon Workmen at Natoma and Coloma in 1848." This Quarterly, XIV (September 1935), 269-82. See also Daniel Tyler, A Con- cise History of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War, 1846-184"] ( [Salt Lake City], 1881), pp. 334 and 335. The Willis brothers are also mentioned in James S. Brown, Life of a Pioneer (Salt Lake City, 1900), pp. 102, 103, 108, 109.

23. John Taylor, a former Methodist minister in Toronto, Canada, became an out- standing Mormon apostle. His biography is given in William Alexander Linn, The Story of the Mormons from Their Origin to the Year 1901 (N. Y. and London: The Macmillan Company, 1923), p. 412, and Edward W. TuUidge, History of Salt Lake City and Its Founders (Salt Lake City, n. d.), pp. 23-30.

24. Fort Hall, built in 1834, was near the junction of the Snake and Portneuf rivers in what is now Idaho. It was named for William Hall, a Boston financier who had backed Nathaniel Wyeth in his western trading venture. In 1832 Wyeth had made a contract with the proprietors of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, William Sublette and Robert Campbell, to fetch certain goods to them on the frontier. In the meantime the two latter sold their interests to Milton Sublette, James Bridger, and Thomas Fitzpatrick. When the three later repudiated the Wyeth contract, leaving him in the wilds with a train load of goods, Wyeth was so angry that he warned Milton Sublette: "I'll roll a stone into your front yeard that you won't be able to get out." That "stone" was old Fort Hall. Driggs, op. cit., pp. 137-42.

25. George H. Tinkham, History of San Joaquin County (Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1923), pp. 95-96.

26.Winfield J. Davis History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 (Sacra- mento, 1893), p. 97.

27. Ibid., p. 109.

28. Ibid, p. 176. See also George Thomas Clark, Leland Stariford, War Governor of California, Railroad Builder and Founder of Stanford University (Stanford University, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 193 1).

29. Clark, op. cit., p. 1 29.

30. See Note 2.