Includes events that occurred or may have occurred sometime in the 1860s. Or trends that were ongoing in this decade.
- Between 1857-1867: In Rush Valley, Narricut throws potato at Fanny Catherine Johnson out of anger
- Early 1860s: Mary Rhoby Perry Jessop shares an account of a battle between the Shoshones and Cheyennes in Huntsville, allegedly witnessed by herself and her brother when they were children; afterwards, they were scolded by a Shoshone man when they ventured too close to scalps
- 1866-1878: Ogden couple recalls their days running toll gate at Ogden Canyon from 1866-1878, and describe large Indian hunting expeditions into mountains, confrontations with “Big Ute” and “Indian Jack”
- 1860s: Favored campsite in Burch Creek, Ogden area was near 40th and Harrison Boulevard; named individuals included “Old Jack Big Ute” and “Bush Head”
- 1860s: Indian man throws bread and molasses back in Ann Hunt Doxey’s face after he had asked for meat – Ogden
- 1860s: In Ogden Valley, Heber Robert McBride learns how to make jerky from observing Indians
- 1860s-70s: In West Weber, Sarah Martin Holmes recalls Indian women teasing the settler children who were frightened of them
- 1860s-1870s: As a youth, James Bronson and other boys would get into fist-fights with Indians who’d try to take their lunches – Huntsville
- 1860s-70s: Joseph Farr was known to recite accounts of friendly, athletic contests with young Indian boys/men
- Mid-1860s to early 1870s: In Mountain Green, an Indian man is lashed in punishment after he tried to make Priscilla Ebberson Higley and her daughter wash a shirt for him