The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 26, July 1922 - April, 1923 Page: 251
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New Light on Pattie and Southwestern Fur Trade 251
known in Missouri, to accompany him, made camp at some dis-
tance from the Indian village. In the middle of the night the
Indians attacked the defenseless trappers, killing all but the cap-
tain and Pattie and his companion. The next night the three
survivors fell in with a company of American trappers with a
"genuine American leader." "We were now thirty-two in all,"
Pattie records. They planned an attack upon the Indians, who
were so completely surprised that one hundred and ten of them
were killed before the rest could make their escape, and all the
horses and property of the French company was recaptured.
This happened near the mouth of Salt River, up which the
Americans now trapped, the party separating at the mouth of
Rio Verde, part ascending that stream and the rest continuing
up Salt River. After trapping to the head of both streams the
two parties reunited at the junction of the two streams and then
proceeded down the Salt and Gila Rivers to the junction of the
latter with the Colorado, where Pattie says they found a tribe of
Indians called Umene (Yuma),
The trappers now turned their faces up the Colorado, passing
through the territory of the "Cocomarecopper" (Cocomaricopa)
and "Mohawa" (Mojave) Indians. They continued up the river
until they "reached a point of the river where the mountains shut
in so close upon the shores that we were compelled to climb a
mountain, and travel along the acclivity, the river still in sight,
and at an immense depth beneath us." This was evidently at
the mouth of the Black Canyon. Up the river they continued
for a hundred leagues, according to Pattie's estimate, through snow
from a foot to eighteen inches deep, when they finally arrived at
the place "where the river emerges from these horrid mountains,
which so cage it up." They continued up the Colorado and the
Grand Rivers and finally returned to Santa F6, where, Pattie
records, "disaster awaited us. The governor, on the pretext that
we had trapped without a license from him, robbed us of all our
furs."
Comparison of Pattie's narrative with the accounts of Ewing
Young's expedition, 1826-7.-The points in common between the
Pattie narrative and the fragmentary accounts that we have of
the Ewing Young expedition are certainly striking, to say the
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