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Show 106 b e tw e en 1860 and next three 1870, returns census born group, following the third they the are place being English- Welsh placed held by as and Danes. the fourth Swedes. largest foreign In 1870 there 1,790 Swedish born residents and 2,391 Scottish. By 1900 born residents had increased to 7,025 and the Scottish to the Scots in Utah concentrated Although section also they the whole participated As territory. Pastor of the Scottish ing Expedition" further area early as Mormons, sent out colonization.2 near in the was killed some ment of the rian's 1855, 8, throughout Campbell, former the "Southern join to reconnoiter Explor- prospects for called to settle the area s in the face of Indian They baptized some depreda- Indians on the 24th the Indians attacked the group and on of the settler mission.3 in the northern McEwan's account of the mission of the terrain. but 143.1 only 3, had among its founders Archibald Buchanan, describes their efforts to settle the Sptember called to were the Swedish of communities The Elk Mountain Mis sion, John Crawford and John McEwan. rigors largely 1849 Robert L. by Brigham Young Moab in 1855, tions and the settling In the , eventuall y With the thought forcing the in mind of Pt. 44, p. temporary abandon- colonizing as 29. lCensus of Population: 2Robert L. Campbell, Journal, 1849-50 (MS 1950 Zion in Church Histo Office). 3John McEwan, Journal, 1843-93 (MS in possession of Mark |
