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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 37 headquarters were in Skull Valley. Captain Wil-liam McBride with a company of infantry had pre-ceded the cavalry to that point, but finding it im-possible to operate successfully against the Indians with his troops, had requested that a force of mounted men be sent to his assistance. The Indian camp was among the Cedar Mountains, on the west-ern edge of a desert, twenty miles wide and very dif-ficult to cross, owing to an utter lack of water. A first effort to surprise and chastise the savages proved futile, as they had learned of the coming of the troops and laughed and jeered at them from the rocky heights where they were entrenched. A second march of the cavalry across the desert, during the night, when the Indians supposed the pursuit had been abandoned, was completely successful. The savages were surprised in their wickiups just at day-break, and the males almost annihilated. Tons of " jerked beef," manufactured from the stolen cattle of the settlers, were found stored in the Indians' stronghold. Among those who participated in this expedition, which gave many years of peace to the western settlements, were George D. Grant, William H. Kimball, Robert T. Burton, Nathaniel V. Jones, Rodney Badger, James M. Barlow, John Wakely, Charles Westover and Jesse Turpin. COPIED FROM TULLIDGE'S HISTORIES, VOL. H, P. 83. 1 ' The pioneers of Tooele County had their com-plement of trouble with the Indians, in common with the early settlers in Utah. " With them," writes the Historian Edward W. Tullidge for several years, the loss of cattle and horses was frequent and often |