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ling our road, hoping to have news of compara- 

 tively late date, as this valley is a sort of rendez- 

 vous; but we have no more than we bring, we pass 

 and re-pass companies daily, but since we find they 

 have no news for us we go on with a single 

 salutation. 



As we came unexpectedly upon the wagon trail 

 of the Gila route, an exclamation of joy came from 

 almost every one, and tired as we were we jour- 

 neyed until night in better spirits than we had 

 been in for some time. The old chief of the 

 Pimos came out to see us, and presented 

 letters from Col. Cooke,^ Col. Graham^ and 

 others, recommending him as honest, kind 



* Philip St. George Cooke (i 809-1 895) served under Kearny 

 in the conquest of New Mexico, was given command of the 

 "Mormon battalion," which had been recruited at Council 

 Bluffs from among the Nauvoo refugees, and was sent from 

 Santa Y€ to reinforce Kearny in California. The journal of 

 the expedition was printed at the time (Senate ex. doc. No. 2, 

 special session, 31st Cong.) and later in an expanded form as 

 "The Conquest of New Mexico and California" (New York, 

 1878). Cooke commanded the federal troops during the 

 territorial troubles in Kansas, served with distinction in the 

 Civil War and was brevetted Major General at its close. 



2 James Duncan Graham was a member of Long's first ex- 

 pedition. In 1 840 he was appointed commissioner for the sur- 

 vey of the Maine boundary and did good service in the settle- 

 ment of that controversy. He was for a time principal astron- 

 omer of the Mexican Boundary Commission, but was recalled, 

 on account of disagreements with Commissioner Bartlett, and 

 made a separate report (Senate ex. doc. No. 121, ist session, 

 32d Cong.). He reached the rank of colonel during the Civil 

 War and died in 1865. Mt. Graham, Arizona, bears his name. 



