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Title: Economic beginnings of the Far West: how we won the land beyond the Mississippi
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Coman, Katharine 1857-1915
Subjects: Mormons and Mormonism -- General works United States, West -- History Utah Economic conditions
Publisher: New York: Macmillan
Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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ious experience enabled him toguard against the most serious dangers, the failure ofwater and pasture. The train was divided into threecompanies, and the leader of each was instructed tokeep a days march apart from the others so that thescant aguajes (water holes) might not be exhausted.Where there were no springs to be found, wells weredug in the sand, and camping places were selectedwith a view to shelter as well as to grass and water.When possible, wood was collected and fires built forthe comfort of the sick and feeble. Eight childrenwere born en route, and at each birth the march wasdelayed till the mother should be able to ride on.Even so, one woman died; but it was on the whole arobust set of people that Anza brought into CoyoteCanon, where water was again abundant. At sightof the snow-covered summits of the San JacintoRange, the women wept for dread of what was tocome; but Anza assured them that the cold wouldabate as they approached the sea, and the descent THE COLONIZERS 129
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130 EXPLORERS AND COLONIZERS into the valley of the San Jacinto, with its wealth ofwoods and pastures, cheered their hearts. As they neared San Gabriel, a detachment wassent forward to warn the padres of the approach ofthe weary caravan. The men returned in a few dayswith seventeen fresh horses from the mission herdand the news of the massacre at San Diego.72 Anzadetermined to leave his charge under the protectionof the padres and join Rivera y Moncada, comman-dante of the California presidios, in a punitive expedi-tion against the southern Indians. During the sixweeks thus occupied (January 4 to February 15, 1776),the San Francisco recruits had time to recuperatetheir strength in the hospitable quarters of the mis-sion. On February 21 the march was again takenup. The cavalcade was now on the well-worn mis-sion road (the Camino Real), and there were no morehardships. The Santa Barbara Indians brought themfish, and the padres at San Luis Obispo killed a fatdeer for their delectation. At

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