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…showed last 75 words of 1373 total…in charge of the show End Notes 1) July 8, 1874 The first camp was merely a "pull out," commonly called for many years a " Hudson's Bay Start," very necessary so that before finally launching into the unknown one could see that nothing had been forgotten, or that if one had taken too much, being so near to the base, the mistake could be easily corrected. Sam Steels journals http://www.ourheritage.net/steele_pages/Steele_Journal1.html