From the Autobiographical sketch of Ether Enos McBride.

[Ether Enos McBride was born in 1848.]

Johnson’s army was approaching the territory with orders from President Buchanan to annihilate the Mormons and there was quite a rustling to again leave our homes. Where, oh, where are we to go? Go south was the council of Brigham Young. The road from Ogden South was lined with teams of every description taking their belongings and all the food they could haul. The women walking barefoot, going where, they did not know. A few men were left in every place to burn everything that would burn if the soldiers undertook to force their way in. All companies of men were armed and sent to Echo Canyon, determined to fight or die at that place as they had been mobbed and robbed and driven and they were determined to fight it out. But finally the President sent Thomas L. Kane and others and all difficulties were settled, and we moved back to our homes.

I went to Provo and heard Brigham say, this is the first time that Israel were ever to go and retain their homes and we shall never, no never flee before our enemies again. After getting back to our homes my step-father took up a farm of 200 acres of land about three miles from Ogden where I had my first acquaintance with the Indians, as we had no other playmates. I had got quite familiar with their language, manners and customs, which came in quite handy in after years.