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Show 1 66 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. spoken of might have been useless. Still I do not think it was, and will give some of my reasons for thinking so. I have been much in the far south ; have watched and studied the interests and progress of the southern country and its developments. I know that President Young's mind for some reason, was much drawn towards Southern Utah, Arizona, and Mexico. The settling of St. George and other places considered desert wastes, the building of the temple, etc., all show this. In carrying out this move, as far as it went, a road had to be opened up as far as the river. Soon this road was opened farther on into Arizona. Thus a thoroughfare such as the country would support, was opened up now clear through to some of the most fertile valleys of Arizona and Mexico. Some have been settled by our people, and others will be in time, as the best are not yet occupied. The commencement of the Black Hawk war was in 1865. The immediate cause was the whipping of an Indian by a white man. This occurred April Qth. Next day three white men were killed by Indians. April 1 2th, in a battle, two more ; July I4th two ; July 26th, drove off most of the cattle from Glenwood, Sevier County; Oct. 1 7, eight persons were killed near Ephraim. 1866. Jan. 8, two men were killed in Kane County; April 1 2th, three more in the same county. April 2oth, Salina was raided, two men killed, and two hundred head of stock taken. Place was now vacated. April 2 2nd, one killed and two wounded in Piute County. June loth, two men killed in Millard County. June 24th, one wounded in Thistle valley. June 26th, one white man killed in fight with Indians, who raided Spanish Fork. 1867. March 2ist, one man and three women were killed in Sevier County. Many southern settlements |
