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Show ugenej oison nrrsidimr and coimucm wmio Second Indian Blood Reddened Snow Jit BattleBattleOf Beat ft Of Bear River Map Of Battlefield Of The COLONEL CONNER? 400 TROOPS MASSACRED 368 INDIAN PEOPLE Battle Stopped Depredations Of Bannocks And Shoshones In Box Elder County Area By Bernice Gibbs Anderson Stop, Pale Face! Listen to my whisper in the breeze: In the lap of years this Vale of Blood and Tears will be Americas Thermopolae! This Is the interpretation given the sign language of Chief Bear Hunter, tribal leader of the Blackfeet, the blood of whose untamed race crimsoned the winters snow in ithe merciless onslaught of January 29, 1863, at Cedar Bluffs, Franklin county .Idaho. Colonel Patrick A. Connor and his California Volunteers, were called to quell the troublesome Indians. It . was one of the most sanguinary struggles for supremany in the history of man. The tribe of Blackfeet Indians was nearly annilated, an Indian village of more than four hundred people being reduced to a scattered few. Fourteen of Colonel Connors troops ' fell in the battle and later six died in the hospital at Camp suffered Douglas of wounds from Indian arrows. The bat- tle lasted only four hours. The epoch making settlement and development of the west was a dangerous business. The loss of human life In - connection with the subduing of the wilderness and rendering the country fit for human habita, tion by civilized peoples, was terrific. The first pioneers west of the Alleghany , mountains came in 1763. They brought all their belongings on pack animals. There was no road over the mountains for wheeled vehicles. Ever since those pack animals crossed the Alleghany , mountains nearly two hundred years ago, the United States has gradually progressed westward, until by a single act the two oceans, one on either side of the continent, were tied together by bands of steel in the completion of the Pacific railroads in 1869. With that act the final conquest of the mountain, re-se- rt hunting grounds were in vain. This steady stream of people continued for a century to pour into the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and beyond. So when the news of the discovery of gold in California came in 1869, time became more valuable and pioneers bound for the gold fields began banding themselves together for crossing the for Great American Desert protection against the bloodthirsty Indians on the western " plains. It was two thousand miles from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean. Across this vast barren district was only one Mormon settlement in the Salt Lake valley where there was shelter from the storms and prothat tection from the savages roamed over the mountains and plains, the Mormons coming to Utah in 1847, just a short while before the great gold discovery on Sutter Creek in California. When the gold seekers began trekking across the continent in the early 50s, without adequate preparation for the dangers they were to encounter, they were an easy prey for the wily Indians, who always fought from ambush, never coming out in the open to. attack unless the in odds were overwhelmingly their favor, During all the succeeding years until the outbreak of the Civil War these Indian attacks and massacres grew in number and violence until 1863, when Colonel Conner, . later General Conner, commanding the United States forces at Fort Douglas, Utah, surrounded the Indian forces under Chiefs Pocatello, Bear Hunter, Lehi, and others, on the Bear River 140 miles north east of Salt Lake, and practically annihilated the Snake and Bannock tribes of the Blackfeet Indians. This battle broke the spirit of the Indians so that the damage they did and the delay they caused in the location and con- struction of the Pacific railroad was committed by small roving bands and was not the result of any general movement of the Indians against the whites. For fifteen years the Indians of the northern tribes had infested the overland mall route, Major McGarrys infantry and cavalry advanced against the some 300 Indians east. The Indians had a series of natural breastworks algng the river that of tural protection to their village. It proved useless for practically all of thelnd killed. v bearable. had Depredations been committed upon the northern Utah settlers and large bands had threatened to drive th whites away from Cache valley. - Connor General left Fort Douglas with his troops on a bitter cold day and by force marches reached the Indian camp on the Bear River near Franklin .Idaho at daylight on the 29th of January, 1863. Late in the fall of 1862 he had received from his scouts, the location of Pocatellos camp, with the number of lodges and warriors, and the purposes of locating the camp at this particular spot. He decided to strike the camp and destroy Pocatello and his entire band, if possible. In order to insure the success of his expedition it was necessary to maintain absolute secrecy in all the plans. If the plans became known to the whites, in some mysterious manner the news always reached the In dians, and then a i tack was impossible uation was such Connor could not e out of Fort Douglas i (Continued on Follon PLENTY OF ACCOMMODATIONS Brigham City has hotel, motel and auto accommodations for hundreds of parties t, are clean, friendly ... and r( ably priced. You'll enjoy your stay in more if you make Brigham City your' quarters." It's within an hour's drive of all the larger cities and many seer tractions. well-kep- i and plain was begun. 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