All documentation relating to the man known as Wanship are sorted here.
- Feb-March 1841: Wanship allows Osborne Russell to stay with him and his family. Wanship talks about his family, remembers when the Great Salt Lake was so low that bison could walk to Antelope Island.
- March 5, 1849: Wanship and his people camped on the edge of Great Salt Lake City through the winter of 1848-49, and they were terrified when artillery was fired in celebration of the March 5th Deseret convention, believing that Mormons were declaring war against them. Oliver Boardman Huntington also describes the intermarriage politics between Shoshones in Salt Lake Valley and Utes in Utah Valley