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Glimpses of our National Monuments

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  • OUR NATIONAL MONUMENTS 55 had died. The following summer part of the same party visited the bluff and found Scott's skeleton. Thus "the wild and picturesque bluffs in the neighborhood of his lonely grave have ever since borne his name." His grave has been entirely obliterated in the lapse of years. After the naming of the bluff came the pilgrimages of the missionaries, and then the thousands of people on their way to settle the Willamette Valley and Puget Sound region in Oregon and Washington, the vast concourse that trailed overland to the golden coast in California, and the numbers that were driven on by religious zeal to establish the Mormon colonies in Utah. Then came the pony express with its myriad dangers and Indian wars. During the summer months there were so many wagons along this trail that Scotts Bluff an average of one wagon every five minutes passed through Mitchell Pass in Scotts Bluff Monument. Father De Smet said the Indians wondered if there was a great void in the East, so many white people had gone West over the Great White Medicine Road. Mitchell Pass was the scene of many Indian battles, one, particularly, with a convoy when General Harney was in charge of the western military. About 1847 or 1848 Fort Fontenelle was established at the foot of Scotts Bluff. It was later rebuilt during the Indian wars, and although named Camp Shuman by its builder. Eugene Ware, it is known in the archives of the War Department as Fort Mitchell, a substation of Fort Laramie, in honor of Gen. D. D. Mitchell. The monument was created December 12, 1919.
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