Affiliated Ute Citizens of the State of Utah

  The Administration of Indian Affairs in Utah, 1851–1858 Dale L. Morgan Shoshonean Peoples and the Overland Trail: Frontiers of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1849–1869, 2007, pp. 57-83

  Teach Them to Till the Soil: An Experiment with Indian Farms 1850-1862 Beverly Beeton American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter, 1977-1978), pp. 299-320 

  The Mormons and the Indians: Conflicting Ecological Systems in the Great Basin Beverly P. Smaby Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 1975), Pp. 35-48 Mid-America American Studies Association

  Toward a Reconstruction of Mormon and Indian Relations, 1847-1877 Ronald W. Walker Brigham Young University Studies, Vol. 29, No. 4 (FALL 1989), pp. 23-42

  Slavery Caused An Indian War 1938 July (No. 7) The Improvement Era

    Jack Hillers's Diary of the Powell Expeditions, 1871-1875 Photographed All the Best Scenery: Jack Hillers’s Diary of the Powell Expeditions, 1871–1875 presents the firsthand account of Jack Hillers , the photographer who accompanied John Wesley Powell on his famous explorations of the American West. Hillers’s diary offers a detailed, day-to-day record of life on the expeditions, capturing the challenges of travel, interactions with landscapes and Native peoples, and the practicalities of documenting the region through photography. Edited by Don D. Fowler , the volume includes Hillers’s own photographs alongside thorough annotations, providing historical context and clarifying references that may otherwise be obscure to modern readers. The diary entries, though sometimes brief and primarily descriptive rather than reflective, reveal the rigor, ingenuity, and human dimension of 19th-century exploration. This work is a valuable resource for historians, photographers, and ...

      Powell of the Colorado by William Culp Darrah Powell of the Colorado by William Culp Darrah recounts one of the most daring and consequential exploratory expeditions in American history. In May 1869, Major John Wesley Powell—Civil War veteran, geologist, ethnologist, and geographer—set out from Green River, Wyoming, with a small party of nine men and four wooden boats to explore the largely unknown and perilous canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers. These deep, twisting waterways cut through what are now Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona, forming a vast natural barrier that had long blocked central travel routes to the American West Coast. At the time, much of the Colorado River system remained unmapped by Euro-American explorers. Powell’s expedition faced relentless dangers: violent rapids, towering canyon walls, extreme heat, food shortages, and the ever-present risk of death in uncharted waters. Several members of the party abandoned the journey before its conclusi...