Includes events that occurred or may have occurred sometime in the 1880s. Or trends that were ongoing in this decade.

• 1870s-80s: William Andrew Taylor, Jr, of Farr West, played with an Indian boy as a child
• Mid-1880s: After Little Soldier’s death in 1884, his band reportedly no longer camp on the bluffs west of Ogden
• 1880s: Walter Caldwell recalls Dick Mooneye and five other men stopping by his parents’ house for breakfast in Rush Valley
• 1880s: As a child, Fred Pierce gave an Indian boy a big piece of cake, and the boy always remembered him well for it – Bingham’s Fort meadows, Ogden
• 1880s: “Great companies” of Indians would camp near “The Indian Tree” on Ogden’s 2nd Street as late as the 1880s; they would hang meat to dry on the tree’s branches
• 1880s: An old Indian woman comes to the childhood home of Sarah Stone Crowther (in Ogden) to ask for clothing; she had been left behind by her group
• 1880s-1890s: James Martin, Sr., of Harrisville, Utah, would hide Indian women from their husbands “while the men were on a drinking binge”