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Show 124 INDIAN DEPEEDATIONS for ourselves as best we could. About midnight, after we had conversed about what we would do in case we were attacked, we heard a yell down in the valley in the direction of the road. Eowe said: " there comes the boys." We boys fearing that it it might be Indians, planned what to do if such should be the case. It proved to be four boys from Mt. Pleasant, namely R. N. Bennet, Don C. Seely, Peter Miller and James Hansen. They told us that as they were coming up from the road, they saw a small fire up Indian Hollow, and started towards it, when they got onto a ridge and saw our fire, and came to it. We got supper for them. We looked for more men in the morning, but they did not come. We gathered the stock and sheep and drove to Mt. Pleasant. At Fairview we got supper at Gammet's. There was no further trouble with Indians that fall, but we always believed that if we had not received timely help we might have been murdered. HERDSMEN JENS GOTTFREDSON AND OLE JENSEN IN THISTLE VALLEY. P. Gottfredson. My father, Jens Gottfredson, had taken the Mount Pleasant dry stock to herd in Thistle Valley, and also stock from Moroni and Fairview, as well as a part of the Mt. Pleasant sheep. An old gentle-man named Ole Jensen had charge of the remainder of the sheep. Six or seven families from Fairview had settled in the Valley, about six miles from the herd house that we occupied. All went well till along in August, 1864, when the Indians became hateful to the families down the valley and demanded a lot of |
