In the year 1830 a party of young men, well…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

of Henry Miller, Jo Martin and Charley Jolly were found lying on the plains not far from Folsom. Miller had been foreman for Head for twelve years, twelve years. From ihe November 22, 1889, Issue of The Enterprise Early Pioneers The Men Who First Opened The Santa Fe Trail In the year 1830 a party of young men, well known in St. Louis, Mo., left that city on a peri- lous journey of adventure across the trackless desert to Mexico. Their names were : Hugh Stephenson, Lewis Dutton, Henry Dorlew, Lucas Doan, Joshua Sledd, James Kirker, Robert Mc- Knight and Esteven Cushie, a Frenchman. The two last mentioned were moneyed adventurers; the others were vigorous men of muscle and resolution to fight the battle of life to the bitter end. They were the first “old timers,” the ad- vance guard, who made the Santa Fe trail and marked the route traveled by thousands in after years; all honorable men, they never returned to their native country ; they were married here, raised respectable families and died in the land of their adoption.