Copied from “Items of History” by David Moore, early settler of Ogden, found among papers in possession of his son Joseph B. Moore.

After Farr’s Fort was completed the military was further organized by selecting Francillo Durfey Captain of Infantry and David Moore Captain of Cavalry.

The Indians continued quiet until about the third of July 1851 when some of them came in from the mountains and stole seven head of horses. D. Moore and F. Durfey with sixteen men were sent after them but did not get the horses. They found where they had been but the Indians had left their camp very early in the morning before the company arrived. They followed the trail and came up to them about four o’ clock p.m. but the horses were sent off in some other direction.

They endeavored to induce the Indians who were at the camp to go with them to help them find the horses but he only made game of them and said he would not go. They then tried to take him along with them. This he resisted, drawing his knife pitched into the men right and left, when one of the men stopped his mad career with a musket ball.

Finding it useless to hunt further for the horses in a strange country the company returned home again and in four days after their return D. Moore was sent out again with forty-one men to hunt after the Indians. They traveled five days. but found no Indians.