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• catalog abstract ""Across North-Central New Mexico and Arizona along the line of Route 66, now Interstate 40, there first ran a little-known wagon trail called Beale's Wagon Road, after Edward F. Beale, who surveyed it for the War Department in 1857. This survey is perhaps best known for its introduction and use of camels in the American West. Not so well known is the fate of the first emigrants who the next year attempted to follow the surveying party's tracks. The government considered the 1857 exploration a success and the road it opened a promising alternative route to California, but Beale and the government considered such improvements as military posts and developed water supplies to be needed before it was ready for regular emigrant travel. Army representatives in New Mexico were more enthusiastic about the road's readiness." "In 1858 there was a need for an alternative. Emigrants avoided the main California Trail because of a U.S. Army expedition to subdue Mormons in Utah. The alternative Southern Route through southern Arizona ran through Apache territory, was difficult for the army to guard, and was long. When Missouri and Iowa emigrants who combined into what is now known as the Rose-Baley wagon train arrived in Albuquerque, they were encouraged to be the first to try the new Beale road. Their journey became a rolling disaster. The route was more difficult to follow than expected; water sources and feed for livestock harder to find. Indians along the way had been described as peaceful, but the Hualapais persistently harassed the emigrants and shot their livestock, and when the wagon train finally reached the Colorado River, a large party of Mojaves attacked the emigrants' camp. Eight of the wagon party were killed, a dozen more were wounded, and the remainder decided to undertake a difficult retreat to Albuquerque. Their flight, with wounded companions and reduced supplies and made more urgent by the specter of starvation and dehydration, became ever more arduous. Along the way they met other emigrant parties as well as drovers driving livestock to California and convinced them to join the increasingly disorderly and distressed return journey." "Charles Baley, a descendent of the Baley branch of the ill-fated emigrant train, tells this dramatic story and discusses its aftermath: for the emigrants, for Beale's Wagon Road, and for the Mojaves, against whom some of the emigrants pressed legal claims with the federal government. His historical contribution includes a detailed examination of the course of that Indian depredation claim by members of the Rose-Baley party, which provides a case study of the rarely examined nineteenth-century federal Indian depredations claims process."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
• catalog contributor b12559819.
• catalog coverage "Arizona History To 1912.".
• catalog coverage "Beale Road History.".
• catalog coverage "Southwest, New Description and travel.".
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description ""Across North-Central New Mexico and Arizona along the line of Route 66, now Interstate 40, there first ran a little-known wagon trail called Beale's Wagon Road, after Edward F. Beale, who surveyed it for the War Department in 1857. This survey is perhaps best known for its introduction and use of camels in the American West. Not so well known is the fate of the first emigrants who the next year attempted to follow the surveying party's tracks. The government considered the 1857 exploration a success and the road it opened a promising alternative route to California, but Beale and the government considered such improvements as military posts and developed water supplies to be needed before it was ready for regular emigrant travel.".
• catalog description ""Charles Baley, a descendent of the Baley branch of the ill-fated emigrant train, tells this dramatic story and discusses its aftermath: for the emigrants, for Beale's Wagon Road, and for the Mojaves, against whom some of the emigrants pressed legal claims with the federal government. His historical contribution includes a detailed examination of the course of that Indian depredation claim by members of the Rose-Baley party, which provides a case study of the rarely examined nineteenth-century federal Indian depredations claims process."--Jacket.".
• catalog description ""In 1858 there was a need for an alternative. Emigrants avoided the main California Trail because of a U.S. Army expedition to subdue Mormons in Utah. The alternative Southern Route through southern Arizona ran through Apache territory, was difficult for the army to guard, and was long. When Missouri and Iowa emigrants who combined into what is now known as the Rose-Baley wagon train arrived in Albuquerque, they were encouraged to be the first to try the new Beale road. Their journey became a rolling disaster. The route was more difficult to follow than expected; water sources and feed for livestock harder to find.".
• catalog description "Army representatives in New Mexico were more enthusiastic about the road's readiness."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-209) and index.".
• catalog description "Indians along the way had been described as peaceful, but the Hualapais persistently harassed the emigrants and shot their livestock, and when the wagon train finally reached the Colorado River, a large party of Mojaves attacked the emigrants' camp. Eight of the wagon party were killed, a dozen more were wounded, and the remainder decided to undertake a difficult retreat to Albuquerque. Their flight, with wounded companions and reduced supplies and made more urgent by the specter of starvation and dehydration, became ever more arduous. Along the way they met other emigrant parties as well as drovers driving livestock to California and convinced them to join the increasingly disorderly and distressed return journey."".
• catalog description "The Roster -- The Santa Fe Trail -- A New Road West -- Westward Ho! -- Little Water--Many Indians -- Battle at the Colorado -- The Long Road Back -- A Cold Miserable Winter -- California at Last -- The Legal Battle -- The Later Years -- Roster of the Rose-Baley Wagon Train -- Letter from John Udell to His Brothers -- Indian Depredation Claim of Leonard J. Rose.".
• catalog extent "xi, 216 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Disaster at the Colorado.".
• catalog identifier "0874214378 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0874214386 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Disaster at the Colorado.".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Logan : Utah State University Press,".
• catalog relation "Disaster at the Colorado.".
• catalog spatial "Arizona History To 1912.".
• catalog spatial "Arizona".
• catalog spatial "Beale Road History.".
• catalog spatial "Southwest, New Description and travel.".
• catalog subject "979.1/304 21".
• catalog subject "Beale, Edward Fitzgerald, 1822-1893.".
• catalog subject "F786 .B23 2002".
• catalog subject "Mohave Indians Arizona History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Mohave Indians Wars.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The Roster -- The Santa Fe Trail -- A New Road West -- Westward Ho! -- Little Water--Many Indians -- Battle at the Colorado -- The Long Road Back -- A Cold Miserable Winter -- California at Last -- The Legal Battle -- The Later Years -- Roster of the Rose-Baley Wagon Train -- Letter from John Udell to His Brothers -- Indian Depredation Claim of Leonard J. Rose.".
• catalog title "Disaster at the Colorado : Beale's wagon road and the first emigrant party / Charles W. Baley.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".