He died on the 2d of July, 1845, and the lady later married her first love, Solomon, that probably being the intention of William when he put the provision in his will.

FIRST WAGONS ON OVERLAND TRAILS

The valley of the "Flat Wrater" had become well known as a highway for trappers. While data of special trips are a little difficult to obtain, yet mention is made frequently of the movement of some voyageur, or pack caravan, and it is stated that "they took the usual Platte and Sweetwater route."

This valley is still relatively new as a thoroughfare. Some day in the not far distant future there will be streaming east and west, long strings of Pullmans as the Overland pants its way from sea to sea ; and Transcontinental tourists motoring east and west will be as common as emigrants were on Oregon trail.

Away back yonder the trapper found it, and it was new to him, but for generations the aborigines had traveled up and down the valley, and before their time wild animals trailed along the banks of the Platte, ever looking for that greener pasture a little farther on.

Wherever the foot of man goeth, there have been others before. It seems a part of destiny. The old world whirls on, blazing a trail across the wilderness of space, yet probably the path it moves along has been worn smooth by vagrant worlds still moving on before.

Having traversed this part of the wilderness

with a pack horse several times, it was quite natural that one should look for easier modes of conveyance. Thus it was that in the early spring of 1830 two years before Captain Bonneville made his journey up the Platte, William Sublette set out with a party of trappers from St.