FOOTNOTES:
[1] Mrs. Powell’s maiden name. (Ed.)
[2] Capt. Walter Powell, the Major’s youngest brother. Besides the two Powells, Sumner, Bradley, and Hawkins were ex-soldiers. (Ed.)
[3] General Ashley, the fur trader, made his last journey into the Far West before 1835. The man here mentioned must have been someone else, of the same family name. (Ed.)
[4] Major Powell had only one arm. (Ed.)
[5] Potato tops do make good greens when they are young, but become poisonous as they mature, like poke shoots. (Ed.)
[6] Powell afterwards renamed it Frémont River. (Ed.)
[7] Geologists would call these rocks metamorphic crystalline schists, with dikes and beds of granite, but we will use the popular name for the whole series—granite.
[8] It should be remembered that Major Powell had only one arm. (Ed.)
[9] For the miserable fate of these men see forward under date of [Sept. 19, 1870]. (Ed.)