dent occurred in Mountain Green at a point sign¬ificantly called 'Deserter Point.' Actually, the confrontation took place in an area claimed by both the United States and Great Britian. The report to London of the incident was dated 10 July 1825, from the 'headwaters' of the Missouri River. Officials in London assumed that the affair had taken place east of the Continental Divide in U.S. Territory. They refused to intercede diplomatically. Actually the incident happened south of the 42nd parallel in an area claimed by Great Brit¬ian and Mexico. Details and location of the show-down were not known until the Ogden-Kittson journals were published in 1950, 125 years later. The fracas at 'Deserter Point' was the only incident of its kind during the fur trapping competition, and the only time the 'cold war' threatened to erupt in¬to a shoot-out. The event did one good thing—it caused Hudson Bay to change its policy and within three years the British firm was paying its trappers more equitable prices for their furs. Results of the 'cold war' were two-fold. British trappers were willing to leave Northern Utah to the trapping skills of the Americans. Peter Skene Ogden never again attempted to trap the streams of Northern Utah. He never returned to the valley which bears his name. He never visited the site of Ogden, the city named in his honor. Peace was restored and Mountain Green reverted back to its pastoral role in the History of Utah. (The monument inscription was written by William Crithelow III) Chances are you haven't heard of Mary Pickersgill, but without her we may have never had a national anthem, Mary made the huge flag of stars and stripes which inspired Francis Scott Key to write the national anthem at Fort McHenry in 1814. She was a widow and lived in Baltimore in a little house which has since been named the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House. That original flag measured 30 by 42 feet and is now on display at the Smithsonian Miseum of American History. 37 MOUNTAIN MAN