Twelve Mormon Homes : Twelve Mormon homes visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona.

Twelve Mormon Homes, page 067

once with undissembled admiration, and stood posturing before it, and adjusting a strip of leather, dotted with tin studs, that covered the parting of his coarse, black locks, until the rest of the party had filed out. Kanosh, an old acquaintance of 18$3, mourned to my hus- band over the changes death had caused in his band since then, and asked to be told the truth: were any gifts or annuities allotted him by the government; or was he cheated out of them by the agents; had he not a right to stay on the farm his band cultivated at Corn Creek; why must he "be poked ofi with guns to `Uintah?" I do not intend to report Kanosh's set speech, although it struck me as decidedly clever. His prejudice against Mr. Dodge, the agent, has probably no greater foundation than most Indian complaints.38 How great that is, I reserve my opinion! My hus- band made Kanosh dictate a statement in his own words, which I took down in my pocket-diary. The astute old fox made three persons read it to him to make sure I was not cheating him, before he made his X mark: "One snow-time since, I got blankets; no flour, no beef, but a little last spring; no flour, no oats, no wheat, no corn, no bullets; no see nothing but Dodge; Dodge talk heap talk; weino peshar- rony katz yak-good talk, but no give." (Mr. D. is said to have been a Baptist clergyman or missionary.) his KANOSH, X mark. Fillmore, Dec. 17, 1872. "This would be W. G. Dodge, special agent sent to Utah to help in the Black Hawk War. See Jones, Forty Years Among the Indians, pp. 200-1 I; and Flora 67