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Show FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. Mormons. This partially succeeded, but did not last long. As they soon got tired of the treatment received from their new friends. While in camp near the head of Echo Canyon in May, 1858, a number of Weber and Goshutes came and camped on Yellow creek not far from our location. A few of us visited them. They expressed a desire to be peaceable with the Mormons. A meeting was appointed, they agreeing to come to our camp and talk over affairs and make satisfaction for some things they admitted hav-ing done. At this conference A. Miner presided, Abram Conover and myself acting as interpreters. I do not remember all that was said at the time. The Indians acknowledged having committed various thefts, at the same time giving their reasons for having done so. CHAPTER XXII. The Troops Ordered from Camp Floyd to New Mexico I am Solicited to Act as Guide Through the Killing of an Ox I am Charged with being a Traitor to the Church The Trial My Acquittal I Desire to Return Home, but am Forced to Continue as Guide. EARLY in the spring of 1860 orders came from Washington for a portion of the troops at Camp Floyd to move to New Mexico and to explore a wagon road from Salt Lake to Santa Fe, naming the route, as selected by the map, down Little White river, now Price creek, and crossing over the mouth of the Dolores, thence on to Santa Fe. On the old maps these rivers |