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Show 127 functioned well. Although headed by a thorough and dedicated agent, Uriah M. Curtis, unfortunately his talents could not bring the order and stability necessary to that agency- During the administration of his successor, Edward H. Danforth, who served from 1873 to 1878, a series of events beyond the control of the agent led to great dissatisfaction among the Indian people of his agency. In 1877, the failure to receive goods and supplies created a dangerous situation. The supplies had been purchased and sent to Rawlins, Wyoming, where they were placed in storage by the Union Pacific Railroad. The agent for the Union Pacific wrote a complaint to Commissioner Hoyt stating that Danforth had ordered the goods but had not collected them. Danforth, in his remote spot, knew nothing of the arrival of the goods, and wrote to Hoyt bitterly complaining that the Utes had received no annuity goods for two years, that because of the Sioux uprising they had been denied guns and ammunition; and as bad as any of these, the local trading post had been abandoned 2 because business was bad. "'"James Warren Covington, "Relations Between the Ute Indians and the United States Government. 1848-1890." (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of History, University of Oklahoma, 1949), p. 224. 2Danforth to Hoyt, October 2, 1877, in OIA, Colorado, 1877. |