Documents and other material related to travel of people who fell under the Weber Ute label (or other people living/traveling in the same areas) are sorted here.

• An Indian trail on the north side of Weber Canyon was turned into a road
• The first highway from Ogden northward followed an existing Indian trail
• In Plain City, Indians would stay at favored campsites for several days, ask for food, and then go north
• In Plain City, when spring flood waters covered the lowlands, Indians would ride the ferry across the river
• Ogden Valley was populated by hundreds of Indian people every spring, summer, and fall for hunting, fishing, trapping, and collecting of plant foods
• July 1846: Edwin Bryant and the company led by William H. Russell encounter the “Weber Utes” in the Croydon area of Morgan county; they also encounter people of Wanship’s band at Farmington Bay and Salt Lake Valley
• 1847-1880s: The big bend of the Weber River was the winter home for bands of people led by Little Soldier, Indian Jack, and Big Ute; they arrived in early fall and remained until spring
• 1847-1900: James S. Brown states that the site of Salt Lake City was an Indian camping ground, and that one of their burying grounds was “the northwestern part of the Oregon Short Line depot, near the springs.” He states that these were the Utes under Little Soldier, who talked more like the Shoshones to the north. Another man relates story of stumbling upon a “Ute” camp when returning from Oquirrh mountains
• 1849-1858: Little Solder knew Jane Geneva Robinson, wife of Byram Bybee, from when she was a child in Farmington
• 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; whereas Terikee’s band camped at the big bend of the Weber River
• 1850s: Early Davis County residents found evidence of past Indian camping spots, but supposedly “found no houses, tents, or wickiups to mark a permanent abode”
• 1850s: The Elias & Malinda Adams homestead, on the east bench of Layton, was located on a trail used by Indians during seasonal travel
• 1850s-1900s: Sam Gates and other settlers of Fort Bingham/2nd street area said to respect Indians’ seasonal camping on the meadows “that gradually became pastures with fences”
• Ca 1852: A juniper grove in the Uintah area was being used as a gravesite for Indian children, their bodies placed in the trees
• 1852, summer: Indian men travel south through Layton on the way to an unnamed hunting area
• 1853-1855: Mound Fort in Ogden was never completed, as most of the Indians were peaceful and actually camped at the west escarpment by the fort
• 1860s: Settlers followed Indian trails around the horseshoe bend in Weber Canyon while on the way to Mountain Green
• 1860s: Favored campsite in Burch Creek, Ogden area was near 40th and Harrison Boulevard; named individuals included “Old Jack Big Ute” and “Bush Head”
• 1860s-?: In Uintah, Indians camp on the hill above the Byram Bybee home each spring
• Fall 1860: The first settlers to Huntsville encounter Little Soldier and his band, who claim portions of the Ogden Valley
• 1866-1878: Ogden couple recalls their days running toll gate at Ogden Canyon from 1866-1878:, describe large Indian hunting expeditions into mountains, confrontations with “Big Ute” and “Indian Jack”
• 1870s: The big bend of the Weber River was the winter home of several bands of Indians
• 1870s: Reuben Short remembers 300-400 Indians camping in North Ogden Canyon, near Liberty
• 1880s: Indians camped in Bingham’s Fort meadows in the 1880s
• 1880s: “Great companies” of Indians would camp near “The Indian Tree” on 2nd Street as late as the 1880s; they would hang meat to dry on the tree’s branches
• January-April 1884: Little Soldier, his family, and four or five other families, camp near Wilson schoolhouse, two miles west of Ogden
• Mid-1880s: After Little Soldier’s death in 1884, his band reportedly no longer camp on the bluffs west of Ogden