Breaking the Wilderness / The Story of the Conquest of the Far West, From the Wanderings of Cabeza de Vaca, to the First Descent of the Colorado by Powell, and the Completion of the Union Pacific Railway, With Particular Account of the Exploits of Trappers and Traders

by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

[24] North of the Colorado River are innumerable house ruins ascribed by the present Pai Utes (Shoshonean) to the Shinumo. They also call the Mokis, Shinumo, hence Powell applied this term to the whole group. The probability is that the Shinumo were all Shoshonean.

[25] A Journal of Voyages and Travels in the Interior of North America, by Daniel Williams Harmon. A. S. Barnes & Co.

[26] The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth. Harper & Bros.

[27] The Middle Five.

[28] For the story of this exploration see The Romance of the Colorado River, by F. S. Dellenbaugh, and for further information on the natives of the Wilderness, see The North Americans of Yesterday, same author, and The Indian of To-day, by George Bird Grinnell.

[29] Journal of Jacob Fowler, edited by Elliott Coues.

[30] See Voyages to the Arctic, by Alexander Mackenzie, vol. i., p. xxxviii., and other early travellers in the West.

[31] Catlin estimated 16,000,000.

[32] A valuable, handy volume on the early doings of the Spaniards is Pioneer Spaniards in North America, by William Henry Johnson. See also The Discovery of America, by John Fiske.

[33] See Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, translation by Buckingham Smith. Contributions to the History of the South-western Portion of the U. S., by A. F. Bandelier. "Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca," by Brownie Ponton and Bates H. McFarland, in the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Society (January, 1898).