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Show 2O FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. the people would not dispute so much over it. These feelings grew upon me, and I began to be more careful of my conduct, and felt a greater desire to leave the country. CHAPTER II. Learn of the " Mormons" Leave with a Company bound for Salt Lake Valley with Eight Thousand Sheep My First " Big Scare" Surrounded and Threatened by Indians Many Times on the Road Surrounded by Five Hundred well- armed Warriors De-manding the Death of a Man from our Camp, as the Chiefs son had Died Meet with an Accident which nearly Resulted in my Death. IN THE summer of 1850, quite a large company fitted up at Santa Fe, New Mexico, to go to California by the old Spanish trail, leading to Salt Lake ; thence by the northern route to Upper California. I had heard some strange stories about the Mormons, such as were common at that time. I heard of the Mormon Battalion and Pioneer move to Great Salt Lake, a country then only known as the " Great Desert of America," that the Mormons had moved into the desert away from every-one, etc. My sympathy was drawn toward them, for I had often felt as though I wanted to find something dif-ferent from anything yet seen. So when I heard of this company being made up to go through the Salt Lake country, I determined to make the trip with them. At that time the Ute nation was very powerful, possessing the country from near the settlements of New |