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Indian Trails n_2c; _o St Z Page 1 of 1 <br /> RECEIVED <br /> From: Lois Dortch<gramcrackers7 @cox.net> <br /> Ur, <br /> 9 2014 �,qy� <br /> To: Pat Yerkey<pyerkey @aol.com> DIVISION OF RECLAMATION 0 cC IV LReD <br /> Subject: Indian Trails MINING AND SAFETY g ij pusc rnniurce <br /> Date: Fri, Dec 5,2014 7:11 pm <br /> This Indain Trail thing is soeta funny, if it wasn't so stupid. There isn't a trail in the Rocky Mountains that hasn't <br /> been used by lndains, and white hunters and all the mountain lovers in the last 500 hundred years. As for the <br /> Indians, I'm sure they were among the people who used the trails up in that area. What makes one trail so <br /> much more important than any other. I have not heard of any special trail that the Indians used that has a <br /> special meaning. The Indians usually did not live up that far into the mountains because of the weather. They <br /> seem to have been lower in altitude and especially liked the mineral springs. I have never found arrow heads <br /> or other Indian artifacts up in that area. Nor have I personally seen camping areas where they might have <br /> camped very long. <br /> I think any trail in those mountains has been an Indain trail and the one that person has chosen is one of <br /> hundreds where,without a doubt Indains have walked. <br /> It would be hard to prove one trail was more important than any other. The Indains were there , but they were <br /> everywhere and usually kept on walking. There are numerous springs in the area so water was not a special <br /> need.... <br /> Lois Dortch <br /> Area Rock Collector since 1953 <br /> https://mail.aol.com/38865-111/aol-6/en-us/mail/PrintMessage.aspx 12/6/2014 <br />