. Mormon settlement in Arizona : a record of peaceful conquest of the desert . or their claims on the place, andreceived assurance from Geneial Carr at Fort Apache, thatthe locality most likely was not on the reservation and that,in case it was not, he would be pleased to have the Mormonsettlers there. A new ward was established and WilliamEllsworth and twenty more families moved in, mainly fromBrigham City. In May, 1882, the Indians came again toplant corn and were wrathful to find the whites ahead ofthem. An officer was sent from Fort Apache and a treatywas made by which the Indians were giv
. Mormon settlement in Arizona : a record of peaceful conquest of the desert . or their claims on the place, andreceived assurance from Geneial Carr at Fort Apache, thatthe locality most likely was not on the reservation and that,in case it was not, he would be pleased to have the Mormonsettlers there. A new ward was established and WilliamEllsworth and twenty more families moved in, mainly fromBrigham City. In May, 1882, the Indians came again toplant corn and were wrathful to find the whites ahead ofthem. An officer was sent from Fort Apache and a treatywas made by which the Indians were given thirty acresof planted land. June 1, 1882, Apaches killed Nathan B. Robinson atthe Reidhead place and shot Emer Plumb at WalnutSprings, during a period of general Indian unrest. Soonthereafter, President Smith advised the settlers that theyhad better look for other locations, as the ground was onthe reservation. In December, Lieutenant Gatewood, under orders fromCaptain Crawford (names afterward famous in the Ger-onimo campaign to the southward) came from Fort Apache 172.
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