THE TINTIC WAR. In the year 1856, the Indians, a part of the Utes, again beeaone hostile, and a sufficient number of them went on the war path to make…
A POSSE WENT IN PURSUIT OF CHIEF TINTIC AND BAND. Deputy Marshal Thomas S. Johnson came to Provo and enlisted a posse of about ten men who, armed with writs…
THE ELK MOUNTAIN MISSION, AND ABANDONMENT. An Indian Mission known in the history of the Church as the Elk Mountain Mission was established for the purpose of educating a tribe…
THE ALLRED SETTLEMENT, (SPRING CITY) BURNED BY INDIANS. 1854, Jan. 6th-Allred's settlement (Spring City) Sanpete County, which had been deserted the previous summer because of Indian troubles, was burned to…
THE GUNNISON MASSACRE. Copied from (Lights and Shadows of Mormonism) by J. F. Gibbs. ' ' The attention of the traveler on the road from Deseret, Millard County, Utah to…