Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder 1822-1887

by Scott Christensen

The Northwestern Shoshone knew as home the northern Great Salt Lake, Bear River, Cache, and Bear Lake valleys-northern Utah. Sagwitch was born at a time when his people traded with the mountain men. In the late 1850s, wagons brought Mormon farmers to settle in Cache Valley, the Northwestern Shoshone heartland. Emigrants and settlers reduced Shoshone access to traditional village sites and food resources. Relationships with the Mormons were mostly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874212707
• ISBN13: 9780874212709
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 15 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher