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intended to take them out there and exchange them for sheep. We went by way of Bear Valley, down the Sevier River, then turned East up Grass Valley up to Koosharem. At this point, we have a very bad snowstorm, about eighteen inches deep." (Lehi later said that the snowstorm was on his birthday which would have been the 15th of Nov. and he would have heen 33 years old) "Here, my brother Kumen, left us to go home to Bluff, on the San Juan River, along- about two hundred and fifty rides through wild uninhabited rountry most of the way." (Kumen decided that he had been away from his family and home too long, and felt impelled to get back to them to see how things were)"'That was about fifty years ago but it is just as vivid in my mind as if it was ycsterday. The snow deep, the North wind blowing, and to see him start out that morning alone, I can tell you it took some nerve. IYe stayed there one day, then went over to Koosharem Mountain through potato Valley down the Dirty Devil to the Colorado River. At the Dandy Crosning, (Hite) a man by the name of Cass Hite ran the ferry boat. We were there for five days crossing the cattle. We arrived there on the 15th of Dec. and it was very cold weather. In the mornings there was much ice on the river. There was a sandbar that was in the river about sixteen feet in width where we had to take, or make the cattle stay on, to get them over the river. We would strip down and get onto our horses and take ahout eight or ten head a t a time. Four of us would surround the little hunch and crowd them into the water, then try to direct them on thc sand bar. If (the cattle) would get off the bar of sand, they would drop down over their heads and have to swim. We worked with them for five days hefore we got them all across."" The men were on horses in water and ice up above their waists. Three of the men worked at a time driving and crowding the cattle, attempting to force them to swim the river. Onc man kept a fire going with willows and they rotated in order to keep from freezing to death. The last afternoon an old crumpled-horned cow suddenly took it into her head to cross the river, and a number of animals followed her. She had a large calf with her, so the men tied the calf on the opposite side of the river and forced the cow back again. Each time she crossed to get her calf, many cattle followed. They kept repeating this procedure. They all agreed that the crumpled-horned cow was worth more than any cow in the herd because they felt that they may never have gotten the herd across without her. On other occasions, people had attempted to drive cattle across the Colorado River and had failrd.' Lehi wrote: "It was the most disagreeable job I ever had to do - work in that cold water all day, then at night nothing to burn but willows to cook what we had to eat. Where we crossed the river at the Dandy Crossing, was about one hundred miles from Bluff City on the
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Title	Lehi Willard Jones: Biography
Creator	Jones, York F., 1925-; Jones, Evelyn K.
Subject	Jones, Lehi Willard, 1854-1947; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History; Mormon Church -- Utah
Description	Life of Lehi Willard Jones, centering in Cedar City, Utah, 1854-1947, and history of much of the development of Southern Utah
Source	Lehi Willard Jones
Date Digital	2008-01
Date Original	1972
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Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
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Description	intended to take them out there and exchange them for sheep. We went by way of Bear Valley, down the Sevier River, then turned East up Grass Valley up to Koosharem. At this point, we have a very bad snowstorm, about eighteen inches deep." (Lehi later said that the snowstorm was on his birthday which would have been the 15th of Nov. and he would have heen 33 years old) "Here, my brother Kumen, left us to go home to Bluff, on the San Juan River, along- about two hundred and fifty rides through wild uninhabited rountry most of the way." (Kumen decided that he had been away from his family and home too long, and felt impelled to get back to them to see how things were)"'That was about fifty years ago but it is just as vivid in my mind as if it was ycsterday. The snow deep, the North wind blowing, and to see him start out that morning alone, I can tell you it took some nerve. IYe stayed there one day, then went over to Koosharem Mountain through potato Valley down the Dirty Devil to the Colorado River. At the Dandy Crosning, (Hite) a man by the name of Cass Hite ran the ferry boat. We were there for five days crossing the cattle. We arrived there on the 15th of Dec. and it was very cold weather. In the mornings there was much ice on the river. There was a sandbar that was in the river about sixteen feet in width where we had to take, or make the cattle stay on, to get them over the river. We would strip down and get onto our horses and take ahout eight or ten head a t a time. Four of us would surround the little hunch and crowd them into the water, then try to direct them on thc sand bar. If (the cattle) would get off the bar of sand, they would drop down over their heads and have to swim. We worked with them for five days hefore we got them all across." The men were on horses in water and ice up above their waists. Three of the men worked at a time driving and crowding the cattle, attempting to force them to swim the river. Onc man kept a fire going with willows and they rotated in order to keep from freezing to death. The last afternoon an old crumpled-horned cow suddenly took it into her head to cross the river, and a number of animals followed her. She had a large calf with her, so the men tied the calf on the opposite side of the river and forced the cow back again. Each time she crossed to get her calf, many cattle followed. They kept repeating this procedure. They all agreed that the crumpled-horned cow was worth more than any cow in the herd because they felt that they may never have gotten the herd across without her. On other occasions, people had attempted to drive cattle across the Colorado River and had failrd.' Lehi wrote: "It was the most disagreeable job I ever had to do - work in that cold water all day, then at night nothing to burn but willows to cook what we had to eat. Where we crossed the river at the Dandy Crossing, was about one hundred miles from Bluff City on the 101
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