Lewis (Cass) Hite was born on March 3, 1845, in Marion County, Illinois. He was an Utah pioneer and silver and gold prospector, laying claim to a gold mine in Glen Canyon, Utah, that later began the Glen Canyon Gold Rush. A dispute with fellow miner Adolph Kohler resulted in Kohler's death, and Hite served two years in prison for Kohler's murder. Hite was well-known to Navajo leader Hoskinini and spent most of his life exploring and prospecting in Arizona and Utah. Hite died on February 22, 1914, and is buried at Lake Powell, Utah.
Cy Warman was born in Illinois in June 1855. After several failed business attempts, he travelled to Colorado, where he briefly worked as an engineer on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. He wrote several stories and verses about railway life and attempted to start his own publishing press, and also served as editor of the Western Railway Magazine, but both of these endavors ultimately failed. He moved to Creede in 1892 and began publishing a new paper, the Creede Chronicle, which only lasted for a short time. Warman relocated to Washington and then London, Ontario, where a poem he wrote to his fiancee became a popular song called "Sweet Marie." This success helped get Warman a position as a staff writer for the Western Canada Immigration Association, for which he covered railroad construction. He spent many years travelling in Europe, where he pubished several books of poetry. Cy Warman died on April 11, 1914, in Chicago.
From the description of The trail of sixty snows : [poem], 1905, March 3. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 501196354
