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on the land, and within a week nine tenths of the
crop were destroyed. In other years the result was
fairly encouraging, when it is considered that the
Indian is by nature a hunter, averse to all manual
labor, and subsists mainly on meat. For the year
ending June 30, 1869, the amount appropriated for
the Uintah agency was but $5,000. 89
Small as this
sum was, it served to prevent any serious depreda-
tions, 90 for a bale of blankets or a few sacks of flour,
distributed in proper season, accomplished more than
their weight in gold expended in military operations
and military surveillance.
89 Pardon Dodds, in Ind. Aff. Rept, 1868, 156. Dodds, who was then Indian
agent at Uintah, states that at least §20,000 was needed.
90 During the summer of 1868 a few unimportant raids were made in Sanpete
co., whereupon Col Head and others repaired to Strawberry Valley,
Uintah, and a treaty of peace was concluded. Deseret News, Aug. 26, 1868.
Among the most recent works on Utah is The History of Salt Lake City
and its Founders, by Edward W. Tullidge. The first volume, which is a reprint
from Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine, was issued in 1884, and relates the
leading incidents of Mormon history between 1845 and 1S65, the purpose
being to continue it to a more recent date, adding thereto the records of other
towns and counties, and forming when completed a history of the entire territory.
The work is somewhat in the nature of a compilation, and consists
largely of copies of official reports and documents, together with numerous
extracts from other works, more especially from Stenhouse's Rocky Mountain
Saints. Mr Tullidge follows the text of Stenhouse very closely in portions of
his work, though writing from a different standpoint, and sometimes borrows
his language with very slight alterations and without acknowledgment. The
chapters relating to the Utah war occupy a large portion of the first volume.
They are carefully considered, and contain much that is not found elsewhere.
The work is published by authority of the city council, and under supervision
of its committee on revision.
The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons,
from the First Vision of Joseph Smith to the Last Courtship of Brigham Young,
by T. B. H. Stenhouse. New York, 1873. This work, as its title indicates,
carries the story of Mormonism from its earliest inception up to within a few
years of the death of Brigham. Besides giving a complete outline of the
political history of the latter-day saints, it contains chapters on the Mormon
theocracy and priesthood, on polygamy, and on the book of Mormon, together
with descriptions of the domestic and social condition of the Mormons, and of
the various outrages commonly ascribed to them, more especially of the Mountain
Meadows massacre. The book is profusely illustrated, entertaining in
style, and though containing 761 pages of printed matter, can be read with
interest throughout. The author was for 25 years a Mormon missionary and
elder, during which period he was on familiar terms with the apostles, and for
twelve years held daily intercourse with the president of the church. As he
relates, he 'has no pet theories to advance, no revelations to announce, no
personal animosity to satisfy. He has simply outgrown the past.' Though at
times unduly severe, it is in the main one of the most impartial works yet
published by anti-Mormon writers. Stenhouse, a Scotchman by birth, was
converted to Mormonism in 1846, being then 21 years of age. He afterward
labored as a missionary in England, Scotland, and various parts of Europe,