Copied from pg 44 of A Gardner Family’s Heritage of Love: Hyrum Elihu Garner and Mary Virginia Bigler.  By David H. Garner: Author and Compiler.  First Edition: August 2004.

The winter of 1854 was a hard one. Without the native sego bulbs, the pioneers would never have survived. Finally, in desperation, straw from their beds was fed to the livestock. Throughout the settlement that winter, much of the stock died from starvation and cold.

As if that was not enough, the Indians became very troublesome, due to their own indigent circumstances from the severe winter. In order to appease them, the Saints constantly had to give them presents and make feasts for them. It was not unusual to give an Indian the last crust of bread in the house, so that he would go away peaceably and not bring greater trouble.