Events that occurred in 1854.
- 1854: Settlers, who “would never have survived” without native segos, give bread to appease the “very troublesome” Indians during hard winter of 1854, in Ogden
- Ca 1854: In Perry, an Indian man is forced at gunpoint to eat an entire pot of burned soup, by four men who had a “love of a little fun;” another Indian man is whipped nearly to death for taking a calf
- Winter of 1854-55: Little Soldier’s “Weber Ute” band of people were taken prisoner, distributed among Ogden settlers, and forced to work for them