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Show 13 1 to be absent. This ie the only instance of a eucosss-ful attack by the Indian* upon a trading poat of the 2 west. 3 Fremont describes the Indiana of Utah as " wild men" but for all that rvfcher sophisticated, though the country was still largely unkno? m to the white o$ n. Ho » ot the Utah chief, talker, and hi* band all well mounted and carrying riflea. They were robbers of a high order, oonduoting their depredations upon immigration under tho color of trade and toll fox passing through their country. They did not attack and kill, they stffeoted to purchase taking the horsea they liked and giving something nominal in return, Describing the Utah Indians further, Frdront aaya: " From all that' I h?* rd and saw, I should say that humanity appeared there in its lowest form and in the most elementary state. Dispersed in single families, without fire- arms, eating seeds and insects, digging roots - such is the condition Fremont, John C , Kemoirs of lly Life, p. 395. a Chittenden, vol. Ill, p. 971. Fremont, J. C. , Memoirs of 12y Life, p. ** 3S. Ibid., p. 386. |
