From the Autobiographical sketch of Ether Enos McBride.

In the year of 1866 the Indians got so bad Captain Pleasant Green Taylor, Captain of police in Ogden, was called on from headquarters to organize a company of 50 minute men to guard and protect the northern settlements. I joined the company in May of 1866. We had to have good horses and be well armed and ready at a moments notice to go where and when we were ordered. I well remember being ordered at 3 P.M, to start at 4 P.M., for the south end of Bear Lake about 100 miles. There were no roads and we had to follow Indian trails. We rode all night and until about 10 the next morning. We found a number of families, just beginning to make homes, since called Lake Town, situated at the south end of Bear Lake. We found a few Indians about three miles above their settlement but they were peaceable, all having their squaws and papooses with them. We had a good many such expeditions and many trips. In1867 we were released and the company disbanded and we stuck to our farms and in the course of a few years we were all married. Of course we passed through many trying scenes that I don’t wish to mention, but I do know that God, our Heavenly Father, has had His protecting hand over us in many instances so that we did not take the lives of our fellowmen.