Copied from Beneath Ben Lomond’s Peak: A History of Weber County, 1824-1900, pg 264.

The settlers had their first experience with the Indians soon after Hunt and his associates arrived in Ogden Valley in the fall of 1860. Little Soldier and his band of natives were there. They claimed portions of the land in the valley. For the sake of peace the settlers found it wise to pay these natives an annual tax, and so a number of beeves, considerable flour, and vegetables were given to them each year.

The Indians did not always wait for the tax to be given to them. In 1863 fifteen warriors, after killing a man at Mantua, crossed the mountains and camped in Ogden Valley. They killed a beef, “jerked” the meat and left next day with 64 horses, 44 of them belonging to Captain Hunt, and the rest to other settlers. Captain C.D. Bronson, Marsh Hunt, Joseph Hunt, an Indian named Weber Jack, and others, ten in all, pursued the natives. After a fight in which two Indians were killed, the white men returned with all their horses except two of David Garner’s.