Copied from “Items of History” by David Moore, early settler of Ogden, found among papers in possession of his son Joseph B. Moore.

Weber County was first settled in 1848 by Captain James Brown and family on south of Ogden River and Ezra Chase, Charles Hubbard, Ambrose Shaw and their families on north side of Ogden River. All the above named persons raised wheat, corn, and potatoes in 1849. There was of all about nine families in Weber County when the writer of these sketches came in October of the year 1849. There were some ten or fifteen families added to the above number that fall and winter of 1850.

We found two large camps of Indians, one camp of Utahs on the south side of Weber River with about sixty-five warriors, and one camp of Shoshones camped down at the big bend of Weber, estimated to number about eight-five warriors. All the natives were generally quiet during the winter of 1849-50. The snow fell very deep that winter and quite a number of our cattle died for lack of feed. When any of our stock died the Ute squaws would come and skin and dress them and take the entire carcass away to their camps.

Some time during the winter, Little Soldier, the chief of the Utes went by my house on north of the junction of Ogden and Weber, on the run as fast as his horse could go while he was yelling like a maniac. The next day he come to my house. I asked him what made him run his horse the day before and yell so. “Whiskey.” “Ah Soldier, whiskey is not good for you.” “Yes whiskey is heap good for me, it make me feel like ho yeap [?] all the time.”