CHAPTER VII. 
From Cedar Spring, by way of Nephi , Payson, Palmyra, Springville, Provo, Pleasant 
Grove, Lake City, Lehi, Willow creek, and Cottonwood settlements, to Great Salt Lake 
City —October 28 fo November 8, 1853. 
Pioneer creek.—Citizens of Fillmore.—Messrs. Call and Richards —Express to Great Salt Lake City.—Courtesy and assistance 
from Mr. Call and Governor Young.—Papers and property recovered.—Kenosh’s account of the murder.—Excitement of our 
men—Course from the Coochetopa Pass to the Wahsatch Pass.—Character of the country from the Wahsatch Pass to Little 
Salt lake and Vegas de Santa Clara: its impracticability for a railroad.—Railroad following the Sevier river.—Western limit 
of the explorations of 1853.—Unobstructed passage from Sevier lake to Great Salt lake.—Return to Sevier river.—Appearance 
of Sevier River canon —Village of Nephi.—Payson.—Spanish fork.—Palmyra.—Provo.—Timpanogos river.—Western range 
of the Wahsatch mountains.—Line of Mormon settlements.—Supplies purchased.—Lake Utah.—Reference to Stansbury’s 
Report.—Winter camp.—Condition of animals crossing the Plains.—Winter quarters at Great Salt lake. 
October 28.—We moved our camp to Pioneer creek, three miles southeast of Cedar spring, 
to obtain better grazing for our stock. Messrs. Snow and Richards, from Great Salt Lake City, 
travelling on a mission to the lower settlements in the Territory, called at our camp. 
October 29.—A party of the citizens of Fillmore, headed by their president, Mr. Anson Call, 
and accompanied by Mr. Richards from Great Salt Lake City, came to our camp to request 
Captain Morris to furnish the particulars of the disaster of the 26th instant, to be forwarded by 
express to the governor of the Territory of Utah, which express could also take dispatches, for 
the War Department, to Great Salt Lake City, in time for the mail of the 1st of November— 
which would be the last that could be depended upon to reach the States before the next spring— 
provided these dispatches could be furnished within two or three hours. Hasty notes were ac¬ 
cordingly written, without time to take copies for future reference, and reached Great Salt Lake 
City, at a reasonable expense to the government, just in time for the mail. 
President Call and Mr. Richards, taking an interest in the survey, tendered us all the aid 
within their power, and the former voluntarily took upon himself the task of recovering from the 
Indians the papers and instruments they had cap:ured; for which I furnished presents to reward 
the exertions of the friendly Indians who were to be employed. 
These efforts of Mr. Call proved entirely successful, and we had the pleasure, a few days subse¬ 
quent to our arrival at Great Salt Lake City, of receiving at the hands of the agents of the gover¬ 
nor of the Territory, Brigham Young, who had received them from Mr. Call, all the notes, most 
of the instruments, and several of the arms lost—the latter much injured, but the former in good 
condition. Several mules and horses were also recovered, some of them at a later day by Indian 
agents, acting under the Governor’s instructions. Governor Young, immediately on the receipt 
of the intelligence of the massacre, dispatched a party to the scene of the tragedy to bury the 
dead, and, if possible, remove the remains of Captain Gunnison and others, and recover the prop¬ 
erty captured in the camp. In the last object, however, as I have stated, he had been anticipated; 
and in the kindly office of the first, unfortunately, the wolves had left but the slightest traces of 
the remains of the dead to receive the solemn rite of burial. 
October 30.—Kenosh, the chief of the band of murderers, arrived at Fillmore, having been sent 
for by Mr. Call, accompanied by fifteen or twenty of his people. He brought with him one of 
the public horses lost by Captain Gunnison’s escort, “which,” he said, “he had taken from the 
fellow who came to him with the intelligence of their successful operation, and hastened to return 
it, meeting Mr, Call’s messenger (who had been sent for him) on the way; that he deeply regretted 
