- 1850-01-31: Militia orders to raise campaign against Utes at Fort Utah – “Exterminate” those who don’t sue for peace, “no violence to women & children…unless demanded by attendant circumstances”
- 1850-02-01 to 02-16: Militia correspondence about campaign against Utes in Utah County – Black Hawk assists militia; Utes fortify themselves with breastworks made from dismantled house; blood trails from wounded; survivors flee to Rock Canyon; Indians on Peteetneet creek “destroyed”; “Take no hostile prisoners… Let none escape but do the work up clean”
- 1850-02-10 to 02-15: Militia correspondence about campaign against Utes in Utah County – Militia pursues Utes up Rock Canyon; “Slay them wherever they can be found. Let it be with them, peace or extermination;” Women & children taken prisoner; Ute men killed on ice of Utah Lake; more on Peteetneet creek killings
- 1850-02-16 to 02-28: Militia correspondence about campaign against Utes in Utah County – Peteetneet creek killings; Militia finds Utes in Rock Canyon, kills man; several found dead from wounds & exposure, including Old Elk; Ute woman falls from precipice while fleeing; Survivors escape on snowshoes; Militia estimates 24 Utes killed, 5 wounded, 10 more (including women & children) dead from exposure; 23 prisoners taken; “We merely wish to teach them to do right”
- 1850-03-11 to 05-13: Court martial of Col. Scott; Deliverance of prisoners, horses to Grosephine & Black Hawk; Daniel H Wells’s letter to Ute leaders: “The Mormons Big Chief talks with the Great Spirit and he tells us what to do“
