"Weber River Yutas...their chief settlement is forty miles to the north...they understand Shoshonee."

Copied from “The City of the Saints,” by Richard F. Burton, 1862. Pg 474, 476.

Pg 474

The Shoshonee number fourteen tribes regularly organized; the principal, which contains about 12,000 souls, is commanded by Washaki, assisted, as usual, by sub-chiefs, four to six in number. Five bands, numbering near 1000 each, roam about the mountains and kanyons of Great Salt Lake County, Weber, Bear, Cache, and Malad Valleys, extending eighty miles north from the Holy City. These have suffered the most from proximity with the whites, and no longer disdain agriculture.

Pg 476

Weber-River Yutas are those principally seen in Great Salt Lake City ; they are a poor and degraded tribe. Their chief settlement is forty miles to the north, and, like the Gosh Yutas, they understand Shoshonee.

Documenting the Weber Utes

“Weber River Yutas…their chief settlement is forty miles to the north…they understand Shoshonee.”

A collection of documents, excerpts, and photographs relevant to the so-called Weber Ute people of Northern Utah. Not a complete history — research aid only.