Copied from pg 147 of An Enduring Legacy, vol. 5, by Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Story by Sarah Jane Beckstead Hatch.

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In August 1857, a few families moved into Weber Valley on a nice stream of water.  They had not lived there very long when one of their number did something to make the Indians mad, and the Indians threatened to kill them all.  Father was quite a friend to the Indians.  He told the chief, Big Soldier, that if he would leave the whites alone he (Father) would go see Brigham Young and he would send them presents.  The chief promised.  It was fifty miles to the city and they had only ox teams.  Two men went on foot and the chief allowed his son, Little Soldier, to go with them on a pony.  Little Soldier got back the third night and told the other Indians that the two white men would be back at ten o’clock a.m. the next day.   No one had told Mother, so the next day when the Indians swarmed in at daylight, she thought it was a massacre.  She hurried and dressed her three little girls, not knowing what their fate would be.  The Indians seemed so uneasy and she was terribly worried. Imagine being surrounded by a whole tribe of Indians and fearing for your lives every minute!

At ten o’clock the men arrived and brought with them food, blankets and clothing for the Indians.  The word came to them that they should be good to the white people and the white people would be good to them. 

They had no more trouble with the Indians while they lived there.  They did not stay there very long, however, for their little village was broken up with the advent of Johnston’s Army.  Weber Valley was settled later and the exact location of that little village is Mountain Green, Morgan County.