Sorted here are documents relating to disease/epidemics.

• The people who “formerly held possession of the region from Salt Lake Valley to Weber Valley” died off by the hundreds from diseases brought by settlers
• 1848: Suffering from a measles epidemic, many people assembled at the Warm Springs north of SLC to seek healing from the waters; they died in great numbers and were buried in a mass grave
• Spring of 1850: Little Soldier’s band suffered from a measles epidemic, with many dying; Ogden-area settlers tried to nurse the ill
• Between 1858-1884: When Ellen Moore contracts measles, Little Soldier diagnoses the illness and rushes to find herbs that will treat it; afterwards, his remedy “went the rounds” among the settlers
• Winter of 1860-61: All three Indian children adopted by Daniel Wood, of Woods Cross, die from diphtheria and/or pneumonia
• 1860s-70s: In Mountain Green, Mary Rosetta Wadsworth reported that Indians were fearful of settler children who had contagious illnesses