Valley

And then in June of 2028, I am planning a...

Machu Picchu, Peru, Sacred Valley, and Amazon.

Now, again, Egypt, Panama Canal, Peru, and the Amazon.

Please don't call yet.

Can you believe that?

How fun is that?

We had so much fun going up into the Grindelwald Valley is just breathtaking, but you'll be interested to know that Switzerland is having as dry of a year as what we've been experiencing in Utah and other parts of the Western States.

So in September, it has been surprisingly dry, which was really kind of sad because as we came down from the top of the, the, Valley, we came into Latter Bruton, which is now known for the many amazing waterfalls.

Captain William G. Marcy was the quartermaster and commissary.

Nagley's company of Stevenson's regiment had been mounted and was sent out against the Indians in the San Joaquin Valley, and Shannon's company occupied the barracks.

Shortly after General Kearney had gone east, we found an order of his on record, removing one Mr. Nash, the Al-Qaeda of Sonoma, and appointing to his place ex-governor L. W. Boggs, A letter came to Colonel and Governor Mason from Boggs, whom he had personally known in Missouri, complaining that though he had been appointed Al-Qaeda, the then incumbent Nash utterly denied Carney's right to remove him, because he had been elected by the people under the proclamation of Commodore Sloat, and refused to surrender his office or to account for his acts as Al-Qaeda.

Such a proclamation had been made by Commodore Sloat shortly after the first occupation of California, announcing that the people were free and enlightened American citizens, entitled to all the rights and privileges as such, and among them the right to elect their own officers, etc.

The people of Sonoma Town and Valley, some forty or fifty immigrants from the United States, and very few native Californians, had elected Mr. Nash, and as stated he refused to recognize the right of a mere military commander to eject him and to appoint another to his place neither general kearney nor mason had much respect for this land of buncombe but assumed the true doctrine that california was yet a mexican province held by right of conquest that the military commander was held responsible to the country and that the province should be held in statu quo until a treaty of peace this letter of boggs was therefore referred to captain brackett whose company was stationed at sonoma with orders to notify nash that boggs was the rightful alcaide that he must quietly surrender his office with the books and records thereof and that he must account for any moneys received from the sale of town lots etc etc and in the event of refusal he captain brackett must compel him by the use of force In due time we got Brackett's answer, saying that the little community of Sonoma was in a dangerous state of effervescence caused by his orders, that Nash was backed by most of the Americans there, who had come across from Missouri with American ideas, that as he, Brackett, was a volunteer officer, likely to be soon discharged, and as he designed to settle there, he asked in consequence to be excused from the execution of of this to him unpleasant duty such a request coming to an old soldier like colonel mason aroused his wrath and he would have proceeded rough-shot against brackett who by the way was a west point graduate and ought to have known better but i suggested to the colonel that the case being a test one he had better send me up to sonoma and i would settle it quick enough He then gave me an order to go to Sonoma to carry out the instructions already given to Brackett.

I took one soldier with me, Private Barnes, with four horses, two of which we rode, and the other two we drove ahead.

The first day we reached Gilroy's and camped by a stream near three or four adobe huts known as Gilroy's Ranch.

Nobody paid for a bed, for he slept on the ground, without fear of cold or rain.

Um, and once we were able to wrap their brains around, it was like, okay, we could do this.

So I played, uh, on another Tiki map, uh, cozy's Valley.

I think it's the one that has the rivers on it that you have to cross a river to get into the middle.

Kevin brought a mad dog mark for Delta, uh, a Hammerhead, a Stormcrow TC, and a Mongoose with mask and pulse lasers that were almost all upskilled on gunnery.

There's like two of the two-keyed maps that are okay, like the Pozeritsu Mountains and the Landing Zone.

Outside of that, I wouldn't.

Because East Valley wasn't bad.

I mean, it's got the rivers on either side, but once you get across the river, it's okay.

And so, yeah, he's, he's just a character, super nice guy, just real big chiller.

Um, it was, yeah, just, just like another, just like another Valley character to add to the, to the Gunnison lore.

Um, Yeah, just making it an even better experience with all the other guys.

So, yeah, Joan's a killer, too.

But in addition, he showed in the Civil War that he was a first-class army commander, both as a subordinate of Grant and when in independent command.

His record in the Valley campaign, and again from Five Forks to Appomattox, is one difficult to parallel in military history.

After the close of the great war, in a field where there was scant glory to be won by the general-in-chief, he rendered a signal service which has gone almost unnoticed, for in the tedious, weary Indian wars on the Great Plains, it was he who developed, in thoroughgoing fashion, the system of campaigning in winter which, at the cost of bitter hardship and peril, finally broke down the banded strength of those formidable warriors, the Horse Indians.

His career was typically American, for from plain beginnings he rose to the highest military position in our land.

Glaciers, compressed snow flowers, carved grand scenery and soil.

Much of the soil in the temperate zone is largely made up of rock flour of glacial manufacture.

The surface of several Mississippi Valley states is deeply overlaid with glacial grindings, and most forests in the Rockies and in the Cascades and the Sierras are standing in glacial soil.

Returning to camp after a long day among glacial wonders, I found that the serene Indians had made a start in assembling the fragments of our shattered boat.

Um, so let's talk a little bit about the sheep.

Like you said, you've seen all these, what was it like Harper for you when you kind of, you guys crested that Valley and the one that your dad's talking about and you've seen all that wildlife and just the different wildlife and the abundance of it.

What was it? What were you thinking when you experienced that? And then tell me what it was like when you seen your first sheep.

Well, like you said, it was amazing.