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Show 39 After the defeat in the Walker War, the Utes would attack only in remote places even when driven to desperation. The fiasco of defeat and the control exercised by the Mormon leaders made the years after the Walker War difficult for the Utah Utes. The other bands were also being threatened by the arriving whites. Fort Massachusetts guarded the four bands of Utes in the southern Colorado area, and the Parianuc and Yamparka Utes were watched by the soldiers of Fort Laramie in southern Wyoming. No alliance between the bands was possible, for the other two bands were also under white domination. At no other place, however, did the calamity come as it had in Utah. The Utes were sure that they had to share their land with the whites. Because of the power possessed by the newcomers, the Utes had to accommodate to being in a subservient relationship. In addition to the penalties of war visited upon the Mormon communities, the Walker War contributed to the increasing alienation between the Mormons and. the federal government. A military detachment under the ^command of Colonel Edward Jenner Steptoe came to Utah with orders to investigate the circumstance surrounding the Gunnison affair- As soon as Steptoe's command had prepared the pasture and winter quarters for their animals in Rush Valley, forty miles south of Salt Lake City, Steptoe was invited to witness the first executions in the territory. It is interesting that the victims were two Goshute Indians who had killed two Mormon boys. Steptoe witnes- |
