Copied from The Biography of Hyrum Adams and Annie Laurie Penrod Adams, Layton, Utah, compiled and edited by Frank D. Adams and Bonnie Adams Kesler, 1953.

Pg 38-39 – As the years rolled by the boy Hyrum [Adams], with bare feet, herded the cows on the mountainside; helped his father with the work in the garden; the planting and harvesting of crops and with enlarging the dam of the Adams Pond which had its beginning in 1852. In the meadow, now covered by waters of the reservoir, they harvested wild hay where they removed countless skulls and bones of buffalo which had starved to death during a winter when the snow was fourteen feet deep here in the valley as told by the Indians.”

Copied from Elias Adams: A Pioneer Profile, published in 2007. Pg 347.

Elias also decided to move from his exposed location on the mountain foothills to the protected hollow below his irrigation pond, just as he had done in Illinois after the hard winter of 1830 when he moved from his open prairie homestead to the shelter of the hollow in Payson township. He knew this was not the first hard winter in the valley and surmised it would not be the last. His daughter said, “I can remember numerous buffalo skulls lying around in the hollow. They had starved during the hard winter before the pioneers came which was told about by the Indians.”