I was in Bear Valley the other day. It is well known for its role as a link in the Old Spanish Trail. It is not difficult to see why traders from Santa Fe liked it: It is a good place to recruit the stock after several long weeks on the hoof. I started wondering what Fray Escalante thought when he got there, so I went to look at his journal. Unfortunately, the Fathers never saw Bear Valley. When they got to modern day Scipio, they turned west and made their way to approximately the modern town of Delta, where they turned south again. To reach Bear Valley from Scipio would have required that they continue south along the Sevier, with the Pavant to the west.
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