By David Brugge - Arizona Department of Water Resources

Related the news and gavc! them the mail. containing news
from thcir friends at homc. Rcfreshcd myself and anim~l
and in co. with Bro. Becksted and Wood about sunset started
on for the brain Camp at the Mowencroppa, - - (Clcland,
Robert Giass Sr Juanita Broolcs, & b:ormon Chronicle: - The
Diaries --- of John D. Lee m-1875. The Hmtington Library,
7,
San bisrino. 1955. p. 264.)
The next day Lee encountered JzcoS Hamblin wk3 advised him
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to settle at "The bloyoppa" with an old man named Winburn. (Ibid.,
p. 264) Winburn had cxops planted at a place Lee consistently called
"Koencropa" in his journal. There was a Main Camp at sone distance
where Lee purchased supplies until that group left. Lee was staying
not at Moenkosi proper however and his description of the country
suggests that he was at Moenave:
---- We strike the first springs affording water enough to
?regate about 40 acre. of land, a few cotto~?yoods and willows.
Here we turn East over rocks and sand 6 nj to the 3rd
springs: consi~er~~abl~ land and grass, a few cotton woods,
a3undance of willow. good water and soil enough to eregste
about 50 acres. At this spring, 2. Hamblin has commenced a
little farm. 1 mile East is an other spring and sone small
springs that would eregate about 25 acres. Land not so goodnot
so good in quality (~1) the soil. A m. further East is
the main body of spring or water, .-the place where Tuba resides. .
Their farm is situated in a low vdly $ mile Idest. Rich soil
probably 20 miles in length wit5 rnzore3 small springs braking
out on the North side but too small to amount to much for
eregatiny - - - (Ibid., pp. 267-68)
As with his failure to note any information ab0u.t: the company
of Mormons except that which concerned him directly, Lee is very
vague in the information he gives about the Indians in the vicinity.
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His first mention of then after his arrival is on June 29th..when some
of the wagon trains _- stoc- the. crops -._. _ ._ of _ the "Natives:' l-k---
.-- mentioned
----that
Tuba was "the pri_n_c_i~.l~e~o~f-t~he~~se.t:tlernent. (Ibid.,
p . 265) He 'l'at-er referx5d-t%-~uba as a "Walipie Chief." (Ibid., p.
266) As Tuba was Hopi rather than Idallapai, he probably meant Walpi
and this suggests that Tuba was originally from First Mesa. In
his entry for July 3rdr Lee mentions that a "Piede" or Paiute Indian
helped him
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erect a shade. On July 4th, he identified .------- more Hopis, "One
of the p~:inQiple men and his Lady 6Z-r~'va Txibe named Tow-wow-we-
'win and h ~ s Squaw She-ma," who visited his camp. (Ibid., p. 266) On