Events that occurred in 1857.
- August 1857: Early Mountain Green settlers are threatened by Indians after a settler “did something to make the Indians mad;” Little Soldier is sent to Salt Lake by “his father Big Soldier”
- Fall of 1857: Joseph Wadsworth’s family moves to Mountain Green, finds Indians “troublesome,” sometimes driving off cattle and horses
- Circa October 4-5, 1857: Robert Lee Bybee stops at Ben Simons’s place in upper Weber to exchange horses during his journey to Echo Canyon (where Bybee will deliver a letter to Col. Jones, before joining Lot Smith at Ham’s Fork)
- Between 1857-1867: In Rush Valley, Narricut throws a potato at Fanny Catherin Johnson out of anger