All documentation relating to Little Soldier are sorted here.

• Alternative names: Little Soldier was also called “To-tads” in the 1865 Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
• Family: Little Soldier’s mother was called Tsome-pom-pitch
• Family: Little Soldier’s father was called To-nights
• Family: Negess/Needra was a wife of Little Soldier’s
• Family: Wangobity was a wife of Little Soldier’s
• Family: Mary Sam was a daughter of Little Soldier’s
• Language: James S. Brown states that the people who lived in the Salt Lake area when pioneers first arrived were the “Utes” under Little Soldier, who talked more like the Shoshones to the north
• General: Little Soldier was “ever the friend of the white man;” he and his band considered the valley of the Weber [Morgan county] their home, but he moved to Ogden and “ended his days there”
• 1821: Little Soldier is born in approximately 1821, in Red Butte Canyon
• 1847-1880s: Bands led by Big Ute, Indian Jack, and Little Soldier made their winter camps at the big bend of the Weber River; Little Soldier’s family allegedly ceased camping in this spot after his death
• 1849: Stick-in-Head and Little Soldier have a fight in Taylor’s Canyon, near Ogden, with Little Soldier the victor – from this point onward, Little Soldier is regarded as a leader
• Winter of 1849-50: David Moore remembers an encounter with Little Soldier during this winter
• Winter of 1849-50: Little Soldier’s band was camped on the south side of the Weber, just below the junction of the Ogden and Weber
• 1849-1858: Little Solder knew Jane Geneva Robinson, wife of Byram Bybee, from when she was a child in Farmington
• Spring of 1850: Little Soldier’s band suffers from measles epidemic, with many dying; Ogden-area settlers tried to nurse the ill
• 1850s-70s?: After Ann Blythe Barker purchased/adopted a “Paiute” baby whom she named Rhoda, Little Soldier would check in often to see how the child was doing in their care
• 1850s-1880s: Little Soldier was a frequent visitor to the homes of Weber County settlers, particularly David Moore’s family; Little Soldier’s daughter Mary continued to visit the Moore family long after her parents’ deaths
• August 1857: Early Mountain Green settlers are threatened by Indians after a settler “did something to make the Indians mad;” Little Soldier is sent to Salt Lake by “his father Big Soldier”
• 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
• Fall 1860: The first settlers to Huntsville encounter Little Soldier and his band, who claim portions of the Ogden Valley
• Fall 1860: Byram Bybee, Robert Bybee, and Bishop Thomas Osborn have encounter with Little Soldier and other men near mouth of Weber Canyon; most of the men are intoxicated and upset with Bishop Osborn, who apparently previously lied to them
• Fall 1860: A few weeks after the Bybees and Bishop Osborn met Little Soldier & other men at Weber Canyon, some of the Bybees’ horses disappear. Little Soldier locates the Indian men who took them and severely punishes them in front of Byram Bybee, Sr
• September 1860: Little Soldier serves as witness against Joel J. Terrell of Mound Fort, after Terrell is arrested for selling liquor to Indian people
• Ca 1862 or later: At Mountain Green, Little Soldier asks Joseph Warren Wadsworth to look after an Indian woman whose request to join his band had been denied
• Ca January 30, 1884: A fight occurs at Little Soldier’s camp two miles west of Ogden, near the Wilson schoolhouse; an intoxicated man shoots into the tent of “one of his neighbors,” nearly killing the woman inside; the woman’s husband (Little Soldier? a different man?) shoots the intoxicated man and then flees
• Spring of 1884: After Little Soldier contracted pneumonia, Ogden settlers “gave him the best medical attention possible”
• April 22, 1884: Little Soldier dies from pneumonia at his family’s camp just west of Ogden; the fight/shooting incident in January was said to be a contributing factor to his decline
• April 24, 1884: Little Soldier is buried at Ogden City Cemetery, in a “strangers ground” grave — the exact location is still unknown as of 2021
• Mid-1880s: After Little Soldier’s death in 1884, his band reportedly no longer camp on the bluffs west of Ogden