Native Tribes 
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Fort Nonsense, and the region was for many years the best 
known of any place beyond the mountains. The routes of 
trappers and prospectors frequently followed old native trails, 
which crossed and recrossed the country in every direction, 
except where the canyons of the Green and Colorado were ap¬ 
proached, when few lines of traverse were open across, and 
none along the course of the water. 
The Joshua Tree. 
Clistoyucca Arborescens. Southern Nevada. 
Photograph by C. R. Savage. 
On the headwaters of Green River lived the Crows, who 
called it the Seedskedee Agie or Prairie Hen River. The 
Snakes and Utes living farther down called it the Bitter-root. 
Fremont called it the Rio Verde of the Spaniards, but ap¬ 
parently without good authority. It was also spoken of as 
Spanish River, from the report that Spaniards occupied its 
lower valleys. Colorado was also one of its names, and this is 
what it should have remained. The commonest appellation 
