 These trees were ones whose bark the Mohave people used for clothing, and these settlers cut them down without permission and provoked a retaliation that triggered the Mohave War.During the Mohave War, Camp Colorado, later renamed Fort Mohave was established on the east bank of the Colorado at the crossing and a ferry operated there thereafter, serving traffic on the Mojave Road, the government supply route from Los Angeles that terminated at Fort Mohave.From there Beale's Wagon Road passed eastward through Union Pass, to Beale Spring and the interior of northern New Mexico Territory to Fort Defiance, Zuni Pueblo and Albuquerque.