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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 167 llllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIMIIIIIIII Gunnison to guard the trails between Salina and Twelve Mile Creek ; they were ordered out for sixty days. While there, nothing of special importance happened, but one evening the cowherders came in without the herd and reported that the Indians were over the Sevier river gathering up the stock. We were soon in the saddle and over the river. The night being dark, we hunted for some time but final-ly found the herd lying down in a bend of the river and brought the animals to town. The Gunnison boys were stationed up the Sevier river, in the neighborhood of Glenwood. At the end of fifty days we were all allowed to go home. BATTLE AT RED LAKE, SNOW, TAYLOR AND FRANSEN WOUNDED. Nearly two months had passed since there had been any serious outbreak. But Indians were prowl-ing round Circleville, and it was reported that they had a rendezvous somewhere near Fish Lake, east of Sevier Valley. General Warren S. Snow with 103 men went up the Eiver as far as Circleville ; he had with him Col-onel John Ivie's company of cavalry from Mount Pleasant, and Captain N. S. Beache ' s company from Manti, with some recruits from other companies; they went to investigate the condition of affairs and arrived in Circleville September 18, 1865. On the 19 they marched up the east fork of the Sevier to Clover Flat, where they encamped for the night. There they got onto the Indian's trail, which they follwed over the plateau between Grass and Eabbit Valleys. Night overtook them before reaching the latter valley; it |
