Horatio Pickett's half brother, "Sanjo" came overland to Utah Territory as a 10-year-old with his mother Susanna Mehitable Rogers Sangiovanni Pickett.
He writes: "Leaving here the road begins to get rough. We are nearing the `Rockies'. When we arrive at Devil's Gate we find another `squaw-man' camp [traders]. Many people don't know what a squaw-man is like. He may have sprung from a good family, but my! how he has fallen. His costume consists of a greasy slouch hat, long hair and beard `a la Buffalo Bill', an old dirty over-shirt and buckskin pants, a butcher knife and revolver in his belt, and moccasins on his feet. Then here's the handsome bride — red lady of the forest, with a herd of red headed papooses running around without any fig leaves on."
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". . . [standing here on the lands of my family, it’s beauty] made me cry. The entire valley . . . became mine . . . and on entering into possession I experienced a moment of pure joy. Grief, and a boy’s luxury in grief, fell away from me at the memory of my mother’s odd remark . . . and I sniffed a long, long, satisfying sniff that brought with it not only a calm acceptance of death but also a consciousness of ancestral heritage, the realization of the presence here, on this very spot, of all the long-dead Leighs who had stood and looked down on [this place] in the past. Dead they were and yet they were not, not while I lived; and I was gloriously, exultantly alive." — R.F. Delderfield
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