Copied from Beneath Ben Lomond’s Peak: A History of Weber County, 1824-1900, pg 264-265.

William Halls gave the following account of a party of Indians that visited Huntsville in 1866: “The following named dignitaries Wash-a-kee, Wa-num-bitch, Basit, Top-si-poih, Toih-swoih, Woo-aah-goih, and Pash-up, chiefs of the Shoshones, and about 1,000 Indians, men, squaws, and papooses, came into this valley last Thursday, and camped a mile west of this settlement.

“On Sunday the chiefs attended our meetings. All were very friendly. President F.A. Hammond called for a donation to be brought in next day, and invited the chiefs and all the Indians to come on to the public square and receive their presents. Yesterday morning early they formed in procession and marched slowly, dancing at intervals, to the public square where the citizens retired to the east side of the square and the Indians sang and played on the square, in an immense ring, danced round and round, circling to the left, and concluded by a sham fight, representing a recent encounter of seven braves with a very superior number of Arrapahoes, in which the Shoshones killed one and scalped him, and made their escape. The same scalp was seen in all their processions and dancing, stuck on a long stick, the squaws now and then striking it with little sticks.

“After these performances they came to the bowery and received four beeves, nine sheep, several sacks of flour and from 50 to 75 bushels of potatoes, carrots, beets, turnips, etc. This last scene in the bowery was truly interesting; such a picture faithfully delineated, would have immortalized the name of the artist.

“They have gone away feeling well, and we feel well, for though their company is very agreeable, our philanthropy is so large that we are willing their presence should benefit other settlements as well as ours.”