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'diamond hitch' on a pack when 1 was 14 years old and, naturally, those people didn't. So, we had quite a time moving that big outfit. In a few days things kind of moled down and we started on horseback for the United States. We delayed and stopped for the Chuichupa people (they lived further away and hadn't caught up with us yet). We slowed down and stayed in one camp for two or three days waiting for the Chuichupa colony to catch up with us. As an old Danish man by the narne of Pete Wahlin was leaving fkom Dublan he grabbed just a pillow and quilt off his bed. He doubled up the quilt and put the pillow between his legs to sit on as he did not have a saddle for his mule. Some rebels were shouting at him when it was just coming daylight and, as the old mule began to trot, he couldn't keep that pillow under hun. He grabbed the piilow i one hand with the reins and n was carrying his six-shooter in the other. The pistol had a wooden stock and a long barrel--a dangerous looking weapon to see. He was carrying it cocked, and one of the men said, 'Brother Wahlin, do you realize your pistol is cocked?' He said, 'VeU, that don't rnake no difFerence, 1don? got no bullets for it.' It took us about two weeks to get to Hachita, New Mexico. We crossed the line at 'Dog Springs.' The United States had an army of soldiers there guarding the h e , and when they saw us coming across the praine in the aftemoon they thought it was the Mexican Army and were al1 ready to shoot us. We n had 500 horses i the gang and over 400 men and you can imagine-we looked like an army. They could see at a distance that we had guns, and we'd gotten so duty traveling that we looked like Mexicans. All that way, and we almost were victims of the Americans. Anyway, that was settled and we went on to Hachita where we had to sign papers and get permits and get
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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