Includes events that occurred or may have occurred sometime in the 1870s. Or trends that were ongoing in this decade.

• Mid-1860s to early 1870s: In Mountain Green, an Indian man is lashed in punishment after he tried to make Priscilla Ebberson Higley and her daughter wash a shirt for him
• 1866-1878: Ogden couple recalls their days running toll gate at Ogden Canyon from 1866-1878:, describe large Indian hunting expeditions into mountains, confrontations with “Big Ute” and “Indian Jack”
• 1870s: Reuben Short remembers 300-400 Indians camping in North Ogden Canyon, near Liberty; when an old man and woman arrived at the house to ask for bread, Reuben hid under his grandmother’s skirt
• 1870s: When Dorthea Nielson Lee was growing up in Huntsville, an Indian man followed her to the store, apparently amused by her fright
• 1870s-80s: William Andrew Taylor, Jr, of Farr West, played with an Indian boy as a child
• 1870s-80s: In Layton, the Henry & Nancy Thornley household is “annoyed a lot” by Indians who are led by a man known as Indian Joe