An excerpt of article, “Bingham’s Fort, Built to Guard Against Indians, Is Remembered by Subscriber,” Fred Pierce, Standard Examiner, 1934. Excerpt printed on history blog History of 2nd Street, Ogden, Utah.

[The Indians] made their camp in Bingham Fort meadows during the eighties. The Indians were friendly and not quarrelsome… They would come and beg once in a while, but that is all they would bother us.  I remember that as a boy I gave one of them a big piece of cake, and he always remembered it and was good to me as long as he lived there. The Indians lived by hunting ducks and geese and fishing and didn’t do much else.  I’ve seen them catch carp weighing as much as twenty-five pounds.