Show I Kt KNOW UTAH fI By ALBERT ALBERI B r F. F PHILIPS 4 9 Settlers in south central Utah in 1849 were menaced men nen- aced acell more or 01 less legs by the Indians Trapper Vasquez and Colonel Jim Bridger advised ad Brigham Young that the red men under Chiefs Walker and Elk were constantly urging the Ut Utes s to attack the settlements about Utah Lake and in iii the Utah valle valley The settlers settlers set set- set set- tiers were vero constantly in fear of ot an outbreak and the tho thefts of ot livestock by the Indians grew Y so bold boldI I that while the settlers had been advised ud by the hl high h to to tale lake a great deal bt before fore making an ab effort to protect themselves from flom the depredations the last straw was reached on January 31 1850 when Isaac Higbee of Fort Utah reported sixty head of cattle and horses stolen and demanded that aid be bc besent besent sent them to so so that they might nIght with a Untied untiM force forie protect themselves I It was then that Daniel II H. Wells Veils commander of the the Nauvoo legion called for volunteers from the legion and on February 4 a company under command com corn mand of Captain George D. D Grant left Salt Lake for Fort Utah This company was followed by Another under Major Andrew Lytle and oil oft February 8 S the volunteers made mad an onslaught on the Indians The latter took toole refuge in an abandoned house but were dislodged and driven into the thicket aion along the Provo river liver Joseph Higbee perished in the fight tight and six of oC the volunteers were wounded they were Samuel Kearns Alexander Williams Albert Miles Jabez Nowland Thomas Orr and William Stevens General Gen Gen- eral erat Wells Veils had been instructed instruct d to move every Indian out of Utah valley and this he did by following them and shooting all that could be seen I This was was th the first Indian war in Utah and no serious trouble occurred with them thereon until 1852 when there was another outbreak During the first war seven twenty braves were killed and und th the I children called upon the settlers for pro pro- I This was done and thc they were cared eared for until the following spring Pleasant Grove was first known as Battle Bittle Creek because it was the place where the first engagement engagement engagement engage engage- ment with the Indians occurred This was in 1850 There was everything about Pleasant Grove to induce Immigration in that there were splendid farming lands fine water power and good range for stock stoel The site of Pleasant Grove was laid out in iii 1853 and on July 24 1853 the families located in th the community numbering about seventy seventy- seventy five moved to the new site I American Fork was founded in 1850 the site being laid out by George A. A Smith mith who was as assisted by byL L L. 13 IJ Harrington Arzan Adams Stephen Chipman William Greenwood and Stephen Mott The first house built in the town was by Adams and Chipman in 1850 and the first gristmill was constructed by Arza Adams and the first store opened by Thomas McKenzie I |