He, Holliday, obtained his wood supply from Jack Morrow's canyon.

Ware tells us that there were two crossings of the Platte at Old Julesburg, one almost opposite the station and curving up the stream to a point about a half mile above the entrance, and the other several miles farther west. After crossing the Platte, these two routes continued up the Lodgepole on opposite sides for a number of miles. The lower was called the "California crossing," and the upper the "Mormon crossing."

In the autumn of 1864, sod structures were built one mile west of "old Julesburg" and in the spring of 1865, Fort Sedgwick came into being, a military post of the United States having been established there.

General Mitchell, for whom Fort Mitchell came to be named, Camp Shuman being changed to that name, was in charge of the western military forces at the time, and the prairies were unusually good for pasturage. The Indians took advantage of the fact and did not go to the south as usual in the winter. Consequently, General Mitchell determined to drive them south so that they would cease their murdering and depredations along the Overland and Denver trails. On the evening of January 27, 1865, he set out prairie fires, simultaneously all the way from Fort Kearney to Denver. There was a brisk north wind blowing, and it "sure" was one sight to see the sheet of flame three hundred miles long, sweeping over the

table lands to the south, leaving blackness and desolation in its wake.