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John Jarvie of Brown's Park BLM Cultural Resources Series (Utah: No. 7) |
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REFERENCES
1Charles S. Peterson, Utah: A Bicentennial History (New York, 1977), p. 3.
2LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen eds., To the Rockies and Oregon 1839-1842, The Far West and Rockies Historical Series, Volume III (Glendale, California, 1955), pp. 136-137.
3LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen, Rufus B. Safe, His Letters and Papers 1836-1847 (Glendale, California, 1955), p. 135.
4John Wesley Powell, "Letters of Major J. W. Powell to the Chicago Tribune," Utah Historical Quarterly, XV (1947), p. 76.
5Ann Bassett Willis, "'Queen Ann' of Brown's Park," Colorado Magazine, XXIX (April 1952), p. 84.
6John Rolfe Burroughs, Where the Old West Stayed Young (New York, 1962), p. 7.
7Edgar McMechan, Unpublished Manuscript, Gates of Lodore Range Station. Dinosaur National Monument; LeRoy R. Hafen, "Henry Fraeb", LeRoy R. Hafen, ed., Mountain Men and the Fur Trade in the Far West (10 Volumes, Glendale, California, 1965-1971), III, pp. 137-139.
8Dick Dunham and Vivian Dunham, Flaming Gorge Country (Denver, 1977), p. 49.
9Janet Lecompte, "Jean-Baptiste Chalifaux," Hafen, ed., Mountain Men, VII, 58. For stories of Baptiste Brown's early exploits see Henry Inman, The Old Santa Fe Trail; The Story of a Great Highway (Topeka, Kansas, 1914), pp. 133-136, 269-277.
10Frederick J. Athearn, An Isolated Empire: A History of Northwest Colorado (Denver, 1976), p. 12; David J. Weber, The Taos Trappers: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest 1540-1846 (Norman, Oklahoma, 1971, pp. 109, 213, 228.
11Jesse S. Hoy, "The J. S. Hoy Manuscript," Colorado State University Library, Ft. Collins, Colorado, p. 70.
13Frank Waters, The Colorado (New York, 1946), p. 177. See also Harrison C. Dale, The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific 1822-1829 (Glendale, California, 1941), pp. 141-144.
14LeRoy R. Hafen, "Alexander Sinclair," Hafen, ed., Mountain Men, IV, p. 301; LeRoy R. Hafen, "Philip E. Thompson," Hafen, ed., Mountain Men, III, p. 340; LeRoy R. Hafen, "Rivals in the Rockies, 1830-1831," Hafen, ed., Mountain Men, I, p. 119.
15Frederick A. Mark, "William Craig," Hafen, ed., Mountain Men, II, p. 110.
17Thomas J. Farnham, Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and in the Oregon Territory (Poughkepsie, New York, 1841), p. 57. The Peoria Party underwent several divisions as it progressed. The party that left Peoria comprised fifteen men. One man joined the group at Quincy, Illinois and two men joined at Independence, Missouri. At 110 Mile Creek on the Santa Fe Trail, three members joined an eastbound wagon party and returned to the States. At the Arkansas River crossing, three members left the party and headed to New Mexico and one new member was added. At Bent's Fort, the group split. Farnham, Oakley, Blair, and Wood engaged a guide named Kelly, continued up the Arkansas, and headed for Brown's Hole. At Brown's Hole, Oakley and Wood decided to return to the East. Farnham, Smith, and Blair continued on to Oregon. The eight members who left the group at Bent's Fort moved north to Fort St. Vrain where three members left the group. The remaining five, led by Shortess, moved on to Brown's Hole in the fall. Shortess moved on to Ft. Hall in October and eventually arrived in Oregon in April. Cook, Holman, Fletcher, and Kilburn spent most of the winter in Brown's Hole and continued on to Oregon in the spring of 1840. For biographies and journals of Obadiah Oakley, Sidney Smith, Robert Shortess, Joseph Holman, Amos Cook, and Francis Fletcher, see Hafen and Hafen, To the Rockies and Oregon 1839-1842.
19Farnham, p. 59. The Fort William which Farnham speaks of is Bent's Fort. For detailed biographical information on Uncle Jack Robinson, see Elizabeth Arnold Stone, Uinta County: Its Place in History (Laramie, Wyoming, 1924), pp. 41-46; and J. Cecil Alt, James Bridger: A Historical Narrative (Salt Lake City, Utah, 1925), p. 261.
20Obadiah Oakley, Expedition to Oregon (Fairfield, Washington, 1967), p. 17.
21Frederick A. Wislizenus, A Journey to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1839 (St. Louis, 1912), p. 129.
22Kit Carson, Kit Carson's Autobiography, Milo M. Quaife, ed., (Chicago, 1935), pp. 54-55. See also Blanche C. Grant, ed., Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life (Taos, New Mexico, 1926), p. 42.
23Harvey L. Carter, "Kit Carson," Hafen, ed., Mountain Men, VI, p. 113. See also Noel B. Gerson, Kit Carson: Folk Hero and Man (Garden City, New York, 1964), p. 89; and, Edwin L. Sabin, Kit Carson Days 1809-1868: Adventures in the Path of Empire (2 Volumes, New York, 1935), I, pp. 96, 278-279.
24Janet Lecompte, "Thomas Biggs," Hafen, ed., Mountain Men, II, p. 50.
25Hafen, "Philip E. Thompson," III, p. 343.
26Francis Fuller Victor, The River of the West (Hartford, Connecticut, 1870), p. 260.
27Robert Newell as quoted by Fred R. Gowans, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous: A History of the Fur Trade Rendezvous 1825-1840 (Provo, Utah, 1975), p. 258.
28William T. Hamilton, My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting (Norman, Oklahoma, 1960), pp. 84-85.
29Glen Rounds, ed., Mountain Men: George Frederick Ruxton's Firsthand Accounts of Fur Trappers and Indians in the Rockies (New York, 1966), p. 130.
30John C. Fremont, Report of the Exploring Expedition (Washington, D.C., 1845), p. 279.
31LeRoy R. Hafen, "Louy Simmons," Hafen, ed., Mountain Men, V, p. 322.
32Murl L. Messersmith, "Historic Interview: Josie Morris," Dinosaur National Monument, 18 July 1960, p. 1.
33Clifford M. Drury, Marcus Whitman, M.D., Pioneer and Martyr (Caldwell, Idaho, 1937), p. 296.
34For an account of the Cherokee trek see Irving Stone, Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West 1840-1900 (Garden City, New York, 1956), p. 147
35William Lewis Manly, Death Valley in '49, Milo M. Quaife, ed. (Chicago, 1927), pp. 84-125.
36Bureau of Land Management, Brown's Park Unit Resource Analysis, Historic Sightseeing Recreation Section, p. 2.
37Samuel Bassett's diary as quoted by Willis, "'Queen Ann' of Brown's Park," p. 84.
38William Culp Darrah, Powell of the Colorado (Princeton, New Jersey, 1969), p. 110.
39John Wesley Powell, Canyons of the Colorado (New York, 1965), pp. 146-147.
40George Y. Bradley, "George Y. Bradley's Journal," William Culp Darrah, ed., Utah Historical Quarterly, XV (1947), p. 35. See also John Colton Summer, "The Lost Journal of John Colton Summer," O. Dock Marston, ed., Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 37 (Spring 1969), pp. 173-189.
43Francis Marion Bishop, "Captain Francis Bishop's Journal," Charles Kelly, ed., Utah Historical Quarterly, XV (1947), p. 190; Don. D. Fowler, Photographed All the Best Scenery: Jack Hillers' Diary of the Powell Expeditions, 1871-1875 (Salt Lake City, Utah, 1972), p. 32.
44Bishop, "Captain Francis Bishop's Journal," p. 171.
45Fowler; Francis Marion Bishop, "Letters of Captain F. M. Bishop to the Daily Pantagraph 1871-72," Utah Historical Quarterly, XV (1947), p. 240.
46Dale L. Morgan, The Great Salt Salt Lake (Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1973), p. 325.
47Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Boston, 1893), p. 401.
48According to Edgar C. McMechan, Cassidy bore somewhat the reputation of a Robin Hood in Brown's Park. His manner was invariably pleasant and good natured, and he was generous to a fault. On one occasion he passed the Bassett ranch and was told by a rider of a poor nester's widow some twenty miles distant. . .Upon being told he swung into the saddle, rode to the lonely ranch and left $200 with the woman" (Edgar C. McMechan, "Yampa Canyon, 1933," unpublished manuscript, Gates of Lodore Ranger Station, Dinosaur National Monument).
49Those who overstepped the boundaries were forced to leave the area. The Steamboat (Colorado) Pilot, 13 April 1898, reported from Brown's Park: ". . .a man named Ward, whose reputation was not above suspicion was served with a notice that the space he occupied was more desirable than his presence. Ward stood not upon the order of his going, but hit the high places for a more congenial location at once."
50Jesse S. Hoy, "The J.S. Hoy Manuscript," Colorado State University Library, Ft. Collins, Colorado, p. 102.
51John Rolfe Burroughs, Where the Old West Stayed Young (New York, 1961), p. 19.
52Robert W. Larson, "The White Caps of New Mexico: A Study of Ethnic Militancy in the Southwest," Pacific Historical Review 44 (May 1975), p. 181.
53William Loren Katz, The Black West (Garden City, New York, 1971), pp. 158-160; and Burroughs, pp. 23-30.
55Dick Dunham and Vivian Dunham, Flaming Gorge Country (Denver, 1977), p. 211.
56Information on the Parsons family can be found in a letter from Queen Steele of Pinedale, Wyoming, the granddaughter of John Parsons, to Marie Taylor Allen, 16 February 1971, in possession of William Allen, Brown's Park, Utah .
57For a highly dramatized account of Billy Buck Tittsworth's early adventures in and around Brown's Park see W.G. Tittsworth, Outskirt Episodes (Des Moines, Iowa, 1927).
59Daughters of the Utah Pioneers of Uintah County, Utah, Builders of Uintah: A Centennial History of Uintah County 1871 to 1947 (Springville, Utah, 1947), p. 41.
60Uintah Papoose (Vernal, Utah), 4 February 1891.
61For an autobiographical account of Ann Bassett's life, see Ann Bassett Willis, "'Queen Ann' of Brown's Park", Colorado Magazine 29 (April 1952), pp. 81-98; (July 1951), pp. 218-235; (October 1952), pp. 284-298; 30 (January 1953), pp. 58-76.
62Dunham and Dunham, pp. 178-179.
66Charles Kelly, The Outlaw Trail (New York, 1959), p. 84.
67Ann Zwinger, Run, River, Run: A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the West (New York, 1975), p. 141.
68Ann Bassett Willis, undated notes written to Esther Campbell commenting on her unpublished history of Brown's Park.
69Larry Pointer, In Search of Butch Cassidy (Norman, Oklahoma, 1977), p. 52.
70Pearl Baker, The Wild Bunch at Robbers Roost (New York, 1971), p. 188.
71Matt Warner, The Last of the Bandit Riders (Caldwell, Idaho, 1940), p. 136.
72Dunham and Dunham, p. 309. Local legend has it that the much married Bassett sister was something of a female Bluebeard. Minnie Crouse Rasmussen presented George Stephens with a small strychnine bottle which was supposedly used to do in one of Josie's husbands. Stephens now has the bottle on display in his private museum in Green River, Wyoming. Park Rangers at Dinosaur National Monument keep the legend alive by repeating the tales to tourists who visit Josie's cabin in the Monument. Descendents of Josie Bassett, however, find it difficult to picture the gentle white haired lady they knew as the husband killer of Brown's Park folklore.
73Lula Parker Betenson, Butch Cassidy, My Brother (Provo, Utah, 1975), p. 80.
75Dunham and Dunham, p. 271. For a detailed account of the Tom Horn killings, see Jay Monaghan, The Legend of Tom Horn: Last of the Bad Men (Indianapolis, 1946), PP. 169-90.
77One of Ann's unique methods of attacking the Two Bar was to marry Hi Bernard, foreman of the ranch! The mismatched lovers' divorce case was in court at the same time as Ann's rustling trial. The Moffat County (Colorado) Courier, 28 August 1913 reports: "Hi charges Anne with desertion. She admits to being away for over a year, but claims it was necessary."
78Moffat County (Colorado) Courier, 14 August 1913.
80Moffat County (Colorado) Courier, 21 August 1913.
82Interview with Carol Lynn Jarvie Terry by William L. Tennent, Vernal, Utah, 4 August 1978.
83United States, Census Office, Ninth Census of the United States, Wyoming Territory, Sweetwater County, Rock Springs, U.P.R.R. Post Office.
84Record of Mortgages Sweetwater County Wyoming Territory, Book A, pp. 262-263, 332-334 County Recorder, Sweetwater County Courthouse, Green River, Wyoming; Record of Licenses Issued in Sweetwater County Wyoming Territory, 1871-1880, County Recorder, Sweetwater County Courthouse, Green River, Wyoming; Assessment Roll of Sweetwater County Wyoming Territory, 1877, 1879, 1880, County Recorder, Sweetwater County Courthouse, Green River, Wyoming; and Tax Roll of Sweetwater County Wyoming Territory, 1879-1880, County Recorder, Sweetwater County Courthouse, Green River, Wyoming.
85Journal District Court Sweetwater County, Book 1, pp. County Clerk, Sweetwater County Green River, Wyoming. 305-306.
86Interview with Minnie Crouse Rasmussen by William L. Tennent, Prescott, Arizona, 29 August 1978, Recording at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah; Marriage Record, Book A, p. 47, County Recorder, Sweetwater County Courthouse, Green River, Wyoming; and Declaration of Intention District Court Sweetwater County, Book 1, p. 160, County Clerk, Sweetwater County Courthouse, Green River, Wyoming.
87Rasmussen; Ann Bassett, Untitled Manuscript. In possession of Mrs. Evelyn Peavy Semotan, Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
88Although Jarvie probably visited Brown's Park prior to his move, Sweetwater County tax rolls and business license records indicate that Rock Springs remained his legal residence at least through May of 1880. He does not appear in the Summit County, Utah tax assessment rolls for 1879 (Brown's Park was in Summit County until 1880).
89Interview with Josie Bassett Morris by Esther Campbell, Brown's Park, Utah, Notes at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah.
91Interview with Josie Bassett Morris by Marian MacLeod, Brown's Park, Colorado, 1960, Notes at Gates of Lodore Ranger Station, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado.
92Interview with Jess Taylor by William L. Tennent, Rock Springs, Wyoming, 16 August 1979, Notes at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah.
94Vernal (Utah) Express, 14 July 1892.
95Vernal (Utah) Express, 31 August 1893.
96Rock Springs (Wyoming) Miner, 24 February 1892.
97Jay Monaghan, "Moffat County CWA Papers," Pamphlet 365, p. 128, State Historical Society of Colorado, Denver, Colorado.
98John Rolfe Burroughs, Where the Old West Stayed Young (New York, 1962), pp. 129-130.
100Esther Campbell Notes, Gates of Lodore Ranger Station, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado.
101Jesse S. Hoy, "The J.S. Hoy Manuscript," p. 103, Colorado State University Library, Ft. Collins, Colorado; Camp Buena Vista, Ashley Valley's First Post Office (Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1974), p. 10; Burroughs, p. 44; Dick and Vivian Dunham, Flaming Gorge Country (Denver, 1977), p. 211.
102United States, Civil Service Commission, Official Register of the United States 1879, Vol. II, P. 351; United States, Civil Service Commission, Official Register of the United States 1881, Vol. II, p. 580; United States, Civil Service Commission, Official Register of the United States 1883, Vol. II, p. 612; United States, Civil Service Commission, Official Register of the United States 1885, Vol. II, p. 656; Interview with John Van Der Eedt, National Archives and Record Service, Washington D.C., February 28, 1980.
104Rasmussen. In 1887, T.H. master, however, the postmaster office (which had served Vernal undoubtedly the "Kraus" recalled by Mitchell was the Vernal, Utah post—at the adjacent Old Ashley Town post until 1886) was George W. Crouch—Mrs. Rasmussen.
106Vernal (Utah) Express, 21 April 1898.
108Jess Taylor Notes, Gates of Lodore Ranger Station, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado.
109John Jarvie to John Jarvie Jr., 28 May 1902, Copy at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah; John Jarvie to Thomas Jarvie, 27 October 1903, Copy at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah.
110The Uintah County Commissioners had granted Crouse a twenty-five year franchise to operate the toll bridge (Record B County Commissioners Unitah County Utah, p. 119, County Recorder, Uintah County Courthouse, Vernal, Utah). Crouse had originally intended to call his community Central Park (Vernal (Utah) Express, 14 December 1901) but the name Bridgeport seemed more appropriate and the name is still found on Utah maps today. In 1907, Crouse sold his Bridgeport property including "that certain ditch and canal taken out of the Green River about one mile west of John Jarvie's place, said canal being about four and one half miles long, and being used for the purpose of irrigating. . .and all the water rights pertaining thereto. . ." to the First National Bank of Rock Springs for the sum of $2,000.00 (Transcript of Records Uintah County to Daggett County, pp. 54-55, County Recorder, Daggett County Courthouse, Manila, Utah.
113Ibid., p. 188, 187, 219; Taylor Interview.
114For details on Jarvie's mining ventures see: Miscellaneous Record, Book A, p. 450, County Recorder, Moffat County Courthouse, Craig, Colorado; Miscellaneous Record, Book B, pp. 446, 448, County Recorder, Moffat County Courthouse, Craig, Colorado; Miscellaneous Record, Book C, pp. 301, 307, 340-342, 350, 361, County Recorder, Moffat County Courthouse, Craig, Colorado; Miscellaneous Record, Book K, p. 155-156, County Recorder, Moffat County Courthouse, Craig, Colorado: Placer Location Certificates, Book H, pp. 57, 63, 64-65, 114, County Recorder, Moffat County Courthouse, Craig, Colorado; and Placer Location Certificates, Book J, p. 586, County Recorder, Moffat County Courthouse, Craig, Colorado.
115John Jarvie to Thomas Jarvie.
116John Jarvie to John Jarvie Jr.
119Tax Assessor's Roll Uintah County Utah Territory, 1888, Utah State Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah; Assessment Roll for Uintah County Utah Territory, 1890, Utah State Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah; and Probate Record No. 155, District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, County Clerk, Uintah County Courthouse, Vernal, Utah.
120Ibid.; Assessment Roll 1897, p. 33, County Recorder, Routt County Courthouse, Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
121Vernal (Utah) Express, 15 December 1892, 22 December 1892, 29 December 1892, 5 January 1893, 12 January 1893.
123Interview with Crawford MacKnight by William L. Tennent, Jensen, Utah, 3 July 1979, Notes at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah.
124Record B County Commissioners Uintah County Utah, pp. 263, 274, 391, County Recorder, Uintah County Courthouse, Vernal, Utah; Record C County Commissioners Uintah County Utah, pp. 2, 207, County Recorder, Uintah County Courthouse, Vernal, Utah.
125Water Certificate Uintah County, Book 1, pp. 95, 101, County Recorder, Uintah County Courthouse, Vernal, Utah; Record B County Commissioners Uintah County, p. 222; Transcript of Records Uintah County to Daggett County, pp. 16, 21, 113; Abstract Dagett County, Book 8, pp. 97-98, County Recorder, Daggett County Courthouse Manila, Utah; Abstract Daggett County, Book 1, p. 113, County Recorder, Daggett County Courthouse, Manila, Utah; Miscellaneous Record, Book K, pp. 508-510, County Recorder, Moffat County Courthouse, Craig, Colorado; Miscellaneous Record, Book A, p. 563, County Recorder, Moffat County Courthouse, Craig, Colorado; Deed Records, Book 68, p. 48, County Recorder, Routt County Courthouse, Steamboat Springs, Colorado; Deed Record Book F, p. 130, County Recorder, Routt County Courthouse, Steamboat Springs, Colorado; Deed Records, Book 27, p. 285, County Recorder, Routt County Courthouse, Steamboat Springs, Colorado; Assessment Roll 1897, p. 33, County Recorder, Routt County Courthouse, Steamboat Springs, Colorado; Record of Tax Sales 1888-1896, pp. 6, 15; County Recorder, Routt County Courthouse, Steamboat Springs, Colorado; Tax Sale Record, Routt County Courthouse, Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
126Mortgage Record Uintah County, Book 1, pp. 9-10, 41-44, 265, County Recorder, Uintah County Courthouse, Vernal, Utah; Deed Record Uintah County, Book 16, pp. 173-174, 566, County Recorder, Uintah County Courthouse, Vernal, Utah; Deed Record Uintah County, Book 17, p. 512, County Recorder, Uintah County Courthouse Vernal, Utah; Certificate of Discharge, Book 1, p. 24, County Recorder, Uintah County Courthouse, Vernal, Utah.
127Assessment Roll, 1897, County Recorder, Routt County Courthouse, Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
133Interview with Ralph Chew by William L. Tennent, Vernal, Utah, 3 July 1979.
134Taylor Interview; MacKnight.
137Vernal (Utah) Express, 1 December 1892.
138Avvon Chew Hughel, The Chew Bunch in Brown's Park (San Francisco, 1970), pp. 74-76.
139Vernal (Utah) Express, 30 July 1909.
140Matt Warner, The Last of the Bandit Riders (Caldwell, Idaho, 1940), p. 58.
142Ann Bassett Willis to Esther Campbell, 23 April 1950, Copy at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah.
143Ann Bassett Willis to Esther Campbell, Undated, Copy at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah.
145Ann Bassett Willis to Esther Campbell, 3 May 1953, Copy at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah; Interview with Esther Campbell by William L. Tennent, Brown's Park, Utah, 25 July 1978, Recording at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah.
On November 14, 1953, the Brown's Park Club re-enacted the Outlaws' Thanksgiving Dinner with Brown's Park ladies taking the various roles. Esther Campbell, recent owner of the Jarvie property, corresponded with her friend Ann Bassett Willis in order to get all of the necessary details. Mrs. Campbell played the part of Butch Cassidy and Ann Ducey, wearing a beard specially made from an old photograph by the Denver Costume House, was John Jarvie.
The only person attending the mock dinner who had been at the original was Josie Bassett Morris, by that time an elderly woman. She was the guest of honor.
146The joke played on Johnson by Strang is a matter of minor debate among Brown's Park historians. For differing opinions, see Vernal (Utah) Express, 24 February 1898; Rock Springs (Wyoming) Miner, 24 February 1898; and Burroughs, p. 160.
147Rock Springs (Wyoming) Miner, 24 February 1898.
148Strang either died twenty minutes after the shooting as reported by the Steamboat (Colorado) Pilot, 9 March 1898, within an hour of the shooting (Burroughs, p. 160), or lingered on in agony for nineteen hours as claimed by the Rock Springs (Wyoming) Miner, 24 February 1898.
149See Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), 9 October 1897 for an account of the Lant and Tracy jailbreak.
150Grand Junction (Colorado) Morning Sun, 9 May 1957.
152Craig (Colorado) Courier, 12 March 1898.
154Steamboat (Colorado) Pilot, 16 March 1898.
156Burroughs, p. 165. Ann Bassett and her husband Frank Willis visited the old Bassett ranch in Brown's Park during the summer of 1949. At that time, they gave the hanging post where Bennett was lynched to Esther and Duward Campbell "because anyone there not knowing what it was would just use it for branding fire, probably" (Campbell Interview). Ironically, when the Campbells moved to the Jarvie property, they brought the hanging post with them and it is currently on display inside the old stone house Bennett built.
157Rock Springs (Wyoming) Miner, 31 March 1898.
158Rock Springs (Wyoming) Miner, 10 March 1898.
159Rock Springs (Wyoming) Miner, 3 March 1898.
160Rock Springs (Wyoming) Miner, 10 March 1898.
161Steamboat (Colorado) Pilot, 23 March 1898.
162Vernal (Utah) Express, 17 March 1898. In the Denver News 11 March 1898, Hoy offered the following solution to the outlaw problem: "A reward of $1,000 apiece, dead or alive, offered by the authorities of the three states, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah and paid by the State where the capture is made, will do the work. One or two men on the trail of a criminal will succeed where 100 men will be sure to fail. They must be hunted like wild animals. Once on their trail stay on it, camp on it, until the scoundrels are run down, and there are men who will do it, men just as brave, determined and cunning as the outlaws themselves. Knowing they will be paid for their work will be inducement enough for them to devote their whole time to the business.
163Steamboat (Colorado) Pilot, 30 March 1898.
164Dunham and Dunham, p. 265. See Carl W. Breihan, Outlaws of the Old West (New York, 1975), Chapter 8, for a detailed account of Tracy's activities in the Pacific Northwest.
165John Jarvie to Thomas Jarvie.
166John Jarvie to Thomas Jarvie.
168John Jarvie to John Jarvie Jr.
169John Jarvie to Thomas Jarvie.
170John Jarvie to John Jarvie Jr.
173Vernal (Utah) Express, 16 July 1909.
174Rock Springs (Wyoming) Rocket, 9 July 1909.
175Yampa (Colorado) Leader, 16 July 1909.
176Charles Kelly, The Outlaw Trail (New York, 1959), p. 324.
179Vernal (Utah) Express, 16 July 1909.
181Vernal (Utah) Express, 10 September 1909.
184Vernal (Utah) Express, 23 July 1909.
185Rasmussen; Taylor Interview.
187Vernal (Utah) Express, 16 July 1909.
190Vernal (Utah) Express, 16 July 1909.
191Josie Bassett Morris told Marian MacLeod (Morris/MacLeod Interview) that the horse was found dead; however, the Vernal (Utah) Express, 16 July 1909, reported that the horse had merely collapsed from exhaustion and was abandoned.
193Vernal (Utah) Express, 16 July 1909.
194Stories vary as to who actually was the first to discover the crime. The Rock Springs (Wyoming) Rocket, 9 July 1909, claims that it was John Jarvie Jr. Jess Taylor (Taylor Interview) and the Vernal (Utah) Express, 16 July 1909, agree that it was Jimmy Jarvie. Josie Bassett Morris told Esther Campbell (Morris/Campbell Interview) that Johnny Law was the one, but her son, Crawford MacKnight (MacKnight Interview), believes that it was Harold King.
195Vernal (Utah) Express, 23 July 1909.
197Vernal (Utah) Express, 23 July 1909.
200Vernal (Utah) Express, 9 July 1909.
201Vernal (Utah) Express, 16 July 1909; Morris/Campbell Interview. The Craig (Colorado) Courier, 15 July 1909 reported that the killers had deliberately left a campfire and human looking decoys to sidetrack the posse.
202Vernal (Utah) Express, 20 August 1909.
203Rock Springs (Wyoming) Rocket, 9 July 1909.
204Vernal (Utah) Express, 23 July 1909.
205Yampa (Colorado) Leader, 23 July 1909.
206Green River (Wyoming) Star, 23 July 1909.
207Rock Springs (Wyoming) Rocket, 16 July 1909.
211Steamboat (Colorado) Pilot, 11 August 1909.
212Vernal (Utah) Express, 23 July 1909.
213Steamboat (Colorado) Pilot, 21 July 1909.
216The story of Jimmy Jarvie's death is universally accepted by the people of Brown's Park. It has been handed down by his brothers and people who knew him; however, the exact date and place of the incident remain uncertain.
Jimmy followed the killers for more than a year. His brothers would send him money to finance his search (Carol Lynn Jarvie Terry to William L. Tennent, 2 April 1979, In Author's Collection) and he would return to Brown's Park to work periodically (Interview with Archie Lamb by William L. Tennent, Manila, Utah, 26 June 1979, Notes at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah). On July 20, 1909, Jimmy was declared an heir at law to his father's estate (Probate Record No. 155). On May 6, 1910, he and his brothers appeared before Routt County Justice of the Peace, J.S. Hoy, and sold a piece of property that had belonged to their father to m E.H. Zimmerman (Deed Records, Book 68, p. 48, County Recorder, Routt County Courthouse, Steamboat Springs, Colorado).
Bannock County, Idaho (Pocatello) and Bear Lake County, Idaho (Montperlier) have no records of his death prior to 1911. The state of Idaho has no record of his death since July 1911. Thus, if Jimmy died in Idaho, as has been suggested, it would have to have been between May 6, 1910 and July 1911 in a county other than Bannock or Bear Lake. At least one person (Lamb) claims that the killing took place as far east as St. Louis, Missouri.
217Interview with George Stephens by William L. Tennent, Green River, Wyoming, 14 August 1978.
218Vernal (Utah) Express, 30 July 1909.
219Abstract: Daggett County, Section 23, Township 2N, Range 24E, County Recorder, Daggett County Courthouse, Manila, Utah.
220Interview with William E. Allen by William L. Tennent, Brown's Park, Utah, 8 August 1979, Notes at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah.
221Transcript of Records Unitah County to Daggett County, Notice of Water Appropriation, pp. 26, 28, County Recorder, Daggett County Courthouse, Manila, Utah.
223Jesse S. Hoy, "The J.S. Hoy Manuscript," p. 102, Colorado State University Library, Ft. Collins, Colorado.
224Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, The Romance of the Colorado River (New York, 1902), p. 249.
226Interview with Wright Dickenson by Glade Ross, Brown's Park, Colorado, June 1975, Notes at Gates of Lodore Range Station, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado.
227Interview with Jess Taylor by William L. Tennent, Rock Springs, Wyoming, 16 August 1979, Notes at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah.
229Charles Kelly, The Outlaw Trail (New York, 1959), p. 79.
230Taylor; Interview with Minnie Crouse Rasmussen by William L. Tennent, Prescott, Arizona, 29 August 1978, Recording at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah. Except for minor details both descriptions of the structures agree.
231Rasmussen; Interview with Crawford MacKnight by William L. Tennent, Jensen, Utah, 3 July 1979, Notes at Bureau of Land Management District Office, Vernal, Utah. Both Minnie Rasmussen and Crawford MacKnight (son of Josie Bassett and Jim MacKnight) recall that the Jarvie whiskey was not always kept upstairs, but was sometimes stored and dispensed from the cellar.
232Interview with Marie Taylor Allen by Glade Ross, Brown's Park, Utah, 11 January 1973, Recording at Gates of Lodore Ranger Station, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado.
233Jay Monaghan, "Moffat County CWA Papers," Pamphlet 365, p. 128, State Historical Society of Colorado, Denver, Colorado.
235Survey Field Notes, Book A-254, pp. 351-352, Bureau of Land Management State Office, Salt Lake City, Utah.
238William E. Allen used the granary when he lived on the property. He believes it was built by Frank Jenkins.
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