Show YOU AND YOUR HERITAGE Editors Editor's note not This is the fo fourth rth in a series of installments installments installments install install- ments made up of a booklet Utah Cattle A Time-Honored Time Industry which was written by Mrs Lonnie of Manti Man Man- ti and published by the Utah Cow Belles Fencing hunting areas reas and plowing up some eighty vari varieties ties of edible weed seeds staple Indian Indian Indian In In- dian fare decimated the Indians' Indians food supply The foragers had to steal or or starve Some uprisings uprisings uprisings ings were averted by Brigham Youngs Young's timely presentations of beef poultices cattle from tithing storehouses But this was not enough Fort Utah was the center of choice hunting grounds and here i in 1 the fall of 1848 this annual an an- annual nual gathering place of the Ute tribes was the scene of the cowmen's cowmen's cow cow- cowmen's mens men's first skirmish with Indians Indians In In- over stolen stock At the beginning of the next year organized organized organized or or- resistance followed the theft of a hundred half more cattIe cattie cat cat- tIe tle With variations the same patt pattern m may be seen in hi all of the early settlements The proverbial proverbial proverbial bial cowboys pitted themselves against the wiley Indians until as late as 1923 when cowboy posses assisted the San Ju Juan n sheriff in quelling the last of Old Poseys Posey's 43 years years' of uprisings uprisings uprisings ings in what is called the Last Indian War During pioneering times it was customary for scouts to ride ahead of herds Riders and guards were often killed and scalped Especially between 1850 and 1870 du during ing the Walker Tintic Tintic Tin Tin- tic and Black Hawk Wars the ranches were raided towns were abandoned and many herds were lost The cowpunchers knew Indian ways Some could converse with their red brothers in hi sign language language language langu langu- age or in their tongue Like them cowboys often slept in hi shallow overhangs without a bed roll drank water out of stone basins had stars for a compass and searched for roots nuts and Sand berries berries berries ber ber- ber- ber ries though their standard provisions provisions provisions pro pro- visions consisted of of flour bacon and pinto beans The cattlemen who came after him were no less frontiersmen than Goodyear Like the rugged peaks around them they stood the ravages of heat dust drouth and swift killing storms One cowhand awakened in hi the morning morningto morn mom ing to find his hair frozen in hi the mud Little wonder that at times a cowboys cowboy's s talk could raise blisters blisters blisters blis blis- on boulders To be continued |