Fort Ephraim Peace Treaty ~ Ephraim, Utah, USA
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brwhiz
N 39° 21.667 W 111° 35.285
12S E 449336 N 4357016
The Indian War conflicts of 1865-1872 in central Utah brought migration into the area to a virtual standstill and caused migrations from vulnerable communities to more fortified and better defended settlements.
Waymark Code: WMFQ0M
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 11/15/2012
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Conflicts with local Indian tribes created migration from weak settlements toward better defended positions. The peace treaty of 1868 took another four years before peace was restored and pioneers returned to their former homes and migration into the area resumed.
The Daughters of Utah Pioneers Historical Marker, mounted on a rough-hewn monolithic monument near the center of Ephraim Pioneer Park at about 45 W 100 North in Ephraim, Utah, reads:
Fort Ephraim Peace Treaty
The Indian War years of 1865-72 brought bitter hardships to Sanpete and other central Utah areas. Different bands of Indians stealthily attacked settlers from their mountain hideouts, then fled to safety. Twenty-seven settlements were evacuated; two entire counties and portions of seven others were temporarily abandoned; seventy pioneers were slain and many wounded; hundreds of cattle and horses stolen. On Aug. 1, 1866, U.S. Indian Supt., Col. H.F. Head and Stake Pres. Orson Hyde obtained promise of peace from Chief Black Hawk. By Aug. 18, 1868, they had accomplished the hazardous feat of assembling a peace parley in Fort Ephraim on Hans Hansen's lawn by a red cedar tree. Black Hawk calmed the defiant braves, a pipe of peace was passed, the treaty was signed and later ratified by U.S. Pres. Andrew Jackson. Black Hawk continued to help arrange peace parleys until other hostile chiefs had signed.
No. 423 · · · Erected 1982 · · · Fort Ephraim Camp