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Show (130) Jacob Forney to J.W. Dyuyuu {V) Oct. 26, 1857 RG 75 Microcopy 234 Reel 898 Fort Laramie. Oct. 26 1857 Genl. J. W. Denver, Dear Sir. I arrived here last Friday evening the troops got here Friday morning, & will leave this evening. Our party will leave to morrow morning. We met with no hostile Indians between this 'Sc Ft. Kearney. I have availed my self of every opportunity to obtain information of the Indians & their condition, in Utah-have obtained some useful information. My present intention is to leave the main road, several hundred miles from here, to have an interview C<,,c with the "Snake Indians." I have assertained^that I can have an interview with the Utahs. I am informed that a portion of this Tribe are Mormons--Brigham Young boasts that he has several Indian tribes in his service & ready to take up arms against the U. States. I will know the truth of this report in a few weeks. Any thing,I may need for the Indians, can be got afe Green River, from a train, belonging to a merchant in S.L. City. Truly & Respectfully your J. Forney Superintendent Indian A. Utah |
