Hugh ALEXANDER caught in snowstorm

ALEXANDER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/3/2006 at 16:31:14

"Fairfield Tribune", Thurs., Jan. 8, 1880, Pg. 3, Col. 2

Hugh ALEXANDER had a terrible time of it going over the mountains on his way back to Salt Lake City. He was the only passenger in the coach from Alamosa to Del Norte, and they were caught in a blinding wind and snow storm. The driver was a new one, the team became lost, and the experience was a frightful one, wandering about on the mountains. From Del Morte to Lake City it was little better. The drifts were so high that they were nine hours going four miles, the drifting snow having to be shoveled almost all the way. Hugh writes home that his trip over the mountains this time was such as one as he hopes never to have to endure again.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.