Show j J Preston Nutter For several decades in the late and early Preston Nutter was one of the biggest cattlemen in Utah and the Uintah Nutter was born in Virginia in He was orphaned as a young boy and worked at various jobs until he came West in 1863 at the tender age of He was so impressed with the country and the occasion that when he bought his first horse he gave it the brand the same brand was used even after his For ten years he wandered around the West prospecting and was moderately 1873 found him in Provo preparing to make a trip to the San Juans in Colorado to search for He met a party of 19 other but declined to accompany them on account of the lateness of the year and danger in crossing high mountains in This was a fortunate decision because the group included the infamous Alfred Packer who wound up eating several of his companions that Years later Preston Nutter served as the chief witness for the prosecution at Packer's After running a freight business in Colorado and also serving in the State Nutter sold out in order to go into the cattle business on a large His first range comprised about square miles in the Hill Creek and Thompson's Spring He continued to expand his operations in this region and also in the Arizona Strip Territory and Strawberry Around 1889 or 1890 he contracted to supply beef to the troops at In 1897 Nutter moved his headquarters to Nine Mile Canyon where he remained until his death in During his time in the Nutter had numerous adventures and episodes with settlers and later His epitaph in the Salt Lake Tribune read that he was of the last links between the old west and the six feet white grey straight as a lodge pole pine and physically hard as the saddle he June 16 the Uintah County Historical Society is taking a trip to Nine Mile Canyon to visit the site of Nutter's activity and many other points of Anyone wishing to accompany the Historical Society is The caravan of private vehicles will depart the Golden Age Center parking lot at 8 a.m. the Participants should bring a sack |