Life with the Shoshones 1847-1852 --
At Fort Bridger and Salt Lake City 1852-1855 --
Wagon train to civilization 1855 --
Life in Missouri 1855-1861 --
Colorado odyssey 1855-1863 --
Sincian 1863-1871 --
Frustration on the Wahatoya 1871-1884 --
Storekeeper-sawmiller-marshal 1884-1900 --
Timber operations 1900-1927 --
The last ten years 1927-1939.

For strict accuracy, it must be stated - the man's name wasn't Vasquez at all. His mother's maiden name was Narcissis Burdette Land. For strict accuracy, the man's name wasn't Vasquez at all. His mother's maiden name was Narcissis Burdette Land. About 1836, she married on Joseph Ashcraft and the couple then migrated from Kentucky to a farm near Independence, Missouri. There, a daughter, Armilda, was born in 1837. Their second child, a son, was born August 23, 1843 and christened him Hiram Washington Ashcraft. Early in 1846, Joseph Ashcraft died, and the comely widow of twenty-seven became the wife of Colonel Pierre Louis Vasquez, a bachelor of forty-eight. The exact date of the wedding is not known, however, the birth of Louis Vasquez Junior on July 7, 1847 indicates that the ceremony took place in the spring of 1846. Although Colonel Vasquez did not formally adopt his stepchildren, both Armilda and Hiram assumed the name Vasquez and always called him "Father." Shortly after marriage, Colonel Vasquez and his new family departed Westport, Missouri, by ox-train to establish a home at Fort Bridger, Utah Territory. In this story about a man who was always known as Hiram Vasquez, the narrative is often based on speculation. In the light of documented evidence, one may assume that subsequent events must have logically occurred as the result of that evidence. The Notes give the inquiring reader the rationale for many of the surmises -- Book jacket.

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