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and the detachment of cavalry sent to subdue them; the outcry against the Utes was <br />• terrible indeed. A Peace Commission To gather facts was held in December of 1879. <br />three months following the uprising, and though only one UTe (Douglas a.k.a. <br />Ouinkent) was sent to prison for his part in the affair, the remainder of the <br />Uncompahgre and White River Utes were removed to Utah in 1881 by a detachment <br />of United States cavalry, the soldiers of Empire Builders flying the banner of <br />Manifest Destiny. A portion of the Southern Ute remained on a small reservation <br />in southern Colorado, but, except for these few Indians, the native people who had <br />lived and hunted in the state were removed from its borders by 1881, only 23 years <br />from the beginning of the gold rush. <br />HunTing and Trapping <br />Little has been recorded regarding the precise activity of trappers in the area <br />of Egeria Park, Oak Creek, and Twentymile Park. However, the same can be said <br />for much of Routt County, and iT can be presumed that the presence of trappers in <br />northwestern Colorado is indication of their probable presence in the Oak Creek <br />area. <br />• The fur-trapping era began to boom about 1825, but there were trappers in The <br />Routt country before the full development of the fur Trade. Among them were half- <br />breed French trappers who worked for whomever paid the best price (AThearn 1976). <br />Baptiste Brown (Jean-Baptiste Chalifoux) discovered Brown's Hole on the Green <br />River in 1820. <br />In The 1820s trapper activity in the region began to pick up. The William Ashley <br />party was sent out by the Rocky iylountain Fur Company from St. Louis in 1824 to <br />trap the central Rockies -- Wyoming, the Yampa Valley, Steamboat Springs, and <br />Brown's Hole (ibid.:) -4). They reached Brown's Hole on the Green in 1825. This year <br />also marked the incursion of Antoine P.obidoux into the Routt country and on To <br />Brown's Park. <br />In 1827, Thomas Smith was traveling in the area near North park when his party <br />was attacked by o band of Indians. During the fight he suffered a wound which <br />required amputation. This he performed himself, and Milton Subleite cauterized it <br />for him. The party subsequently took Smith by streTcher to Brown's Hole where <br />friendly Utes aided his recovery by "chewing roots and spitting juice on the wound." <br />• Smith fashioned himself a stump and was subsequently known as "Pegleg" Smith <br />(H.R.N.F. I°75:2). <br />2.8-13 <br />