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Show CHAPTER TWO: MT. PLEASANT Despite conflicts that occurred in early years between the white settlers and the red protesters, homes remained in the Sanpete Valley. The serious encounters with Indians formed a way of life shared by all of the inhabitants of the small communities in their struggles toward establishing homes. Those encounters were so numerous that they would have filled many books of history had all been, recorded. The 1860's were filled with Indian problems. By 1872 it was stated that all organized warfare on the part of the red man was ended, but in that same spring more depredations were committed, and threatened another outbreak of warfare. Several Peace Conferences were held in different settlements, preceding a meeting in Mt. Pleasant on 17 September 1872 at which General Morrow, Apostle Orson Hyde, Bishop Amasa Tucker, Bishop Frederick Olson, Bishop William S. Seely, and Colonel Reddick Allred had met in Mt. Pleasant with a number of Indian Chiefs and braves who were known to 91 |