Includes events that occurred or may have occurred sometime in the 1850s. Or trends that were ongoing in this decade.
- 1850s: Settlers begin moving onto Fort Bingham Estates area of Ogden (near 2nd St. and Wall Ave.), where the meadows were a favored campsite of Indians
- 1850s: Fanny Gardner, an Indian girl who was born on the Weber River, is purchased by Thomas Sprague and given to the Archibald Gardner family
- 1850s: Little Solder knew Jane Geneva Robinson, wife of Byram Bybee, from when she was a child in Farmington
- 1850s: Story of Robert Montgomery trying to shoo Indian band out of “his” field in North Ogden, only to be reminded that it is their land
- 1850s: Brigham Heber Bingham has a confrontation with an Indian boy over food while working as a herd boy near Plain City
- 1850s: Settler boys and Native boys have a clay pellet game-war on the bank of the Ogden River
- 1850s: While passing through Uintah, Malinda Adams and boys have confrontation with a man they call “Old Limpy”
- 1850s: Elias Adams attends to the grave of a 10-year-old Indian boy; his grave is at the rock slide on the sunny side of Adams Canyon in Layton
- 1850s: Malinda Adams would scald dishes and scrub furniture after her husband Elias invited Indian people to eat at the table
- Ca 1850s: A family story about Malinda Adams of Layton tells of Indian men who supposedly mistook butter for war paint and rubbed it on themselves
- 1850s-70s?: In Ogden, Ann Blythe Barker purchases a little girl whom she names Rhoda; various accounts exist regarding the child’s origins and eventual fate, with some stating that she ultimately died from tuberculosis as a teenager, and another claiming she lived to adulthood. Little Soldier is sometimes named as a culprit in her capture, sometimes as a benevolent friend who would visit to check on her wellbeing
- 1850s-70s: Samuel Park Jr., resident of West Weber, Plain City, Salt Lake City, and Skull Valley, described by family as “friend of Indians”
- Between 1857-1867: In Rush Valley, Narricut throws potato at Fanny Catherine Johnson out of anger
- 1850s-1900s: Sam Gates and other settlers of Fort Bingham/2nd street area said to respect Indians’ seasonal camping on the meadows “that gradually became pastures with fences”