Estimated   Timeline of the Black Hawk War Copyright Phillip B Gottfredson 2008 All Rights Reserved
  Indian Indian White   Event Person involved Indian Wounded White Wounded  
  Population Deaths Deaths    
Year Month 70000        
1847 24-Jul       Mormons enter valley  
  24-Jul       Indians camped at Hot Springs  
  24-Jul       Indian population Best estimate 70,000  
      Natives present Kanosh, Tabby, Washakie,Little Wolf, Wanship,Little Chief,Kone, Blue Shirt, Big Elk, Old Elk,Opecarry,Old Battestie,Tintic,Portservic,Sowiet,Angatewats,Petnick,Walkara,Graspero,Niequia,Antero,  
1848       Little Wolf battling Wanship  
1849     9     Battle Creek first battle with Indians Black Hawk's family murdered  
  March       Provo settlement commenced  
  10-Mar         Angatewats confrontation    
      Cattle Raid   
            Grant, Little Chief's son, Noonch, Blue Shirt, kone,   
            Higby Brothers, Domick Huntington  
  12-Mar       Fort Utah built Black Hawk's kin beheaded  
               
  July   1     Old Bishop murdered near fort  
            Richard Ivie, Rufus Stoddard,Gerome Zabriskie,  
1850 18-Jan         George Albert Smith orders removal of Indians  
      Disease is spreading among Ute    
  5-Feb         Old Elk thrown out of fort sick with meseales  
               
  7-Feb         Col. Grant and troops sent to Fort Utah    
            Timpanogos, Old Elk, Walkara
, Kone, Noonch, Kanish, Battiste,Tintic, Portsovic,Angatewats,Old Sowiet, Old Petnich,Tabby, Old Uinta, Niquia, Antero, Kanosh, Op-Carry,---Troops: Grant, Huntington, Cap. Conover, William H. Kimball, Robert Burton, Lot Smith, James Furguson, John R. Murdock, Ephraim Hanks, A. J. Pendelton, Orsen K. Whitney, Johnson, and Isham Flynn		  
          Black Hawk shows up at fort Nuchee
  
  9-Feb   70 1   Battle at Fort Utah   8 1  
  April         Fort Utah dismantled and move east into Provo  
  May         Cattle Raid at Fort cattle and horses  
  June         Walker vows revenge    
          Cattle Raid Richville horses and cattle  
1851 March   5     Porter Rockwell murders 5 Indian prisoners  
    9     Captain Wm. McBride kill 9 Indian Skull Valley  
               
  May   1     Death of Squash Head  Springville  
  1 1   Indian raid on mill Richville Custer killed  
  1     Springville Squash  Head Murdered  
  9     Goshen Valley Battle  
  15     Whites raid Indians Black Rock Number dead estimated  
1852        
1853     1   Payson Alex. Keele killed   3  
    20     Cattle Raid Payson  
  17-Jul   3 1   Ivie kills Indian begins Walker War James Ivie  
  19-Jul         Indians kill Alexander Keele at Payson  
  23-Jul   7     Provo Indians killed  
      Allreds settle Spring City  
  10-Aug   1     Attack on Willow Creek (Mona) Issac Duffin   1  
      2   Parley's Park John Dixon, John Quayle, John Hoagland John Knight   1  
  1   Fillmore Wiliam Hatton  
      Goshen fight Col. Markham C. B. Hancock   1  
  26-Sep   20     Salt Creek Canyon Indians killed  
  6 1   Goshen C.B.Hancock wounded six Indians killed  
  30-Sep   8 4   Uinta Springs  4 Mormons killed  
  2-Oct   8     Nephi 8 Indians killed  
    2     Moshoquop and son killed    
  4-Oct     2   William Mills John Warner killed Manti    
  14-Oct     1   Fernee Tindrell killed Santiquin    
  25-Oct     12   Gunnison Massacre Moshoquop, Pants, Mareer, Jim, Carboorits, Nunkiboolits, Tomwants, Koonants, Skipoke, Doctor Jacob, Wahbits, and Jimmy Knights. Whites:Captian Gunnison, R. A. Kern, F. Creutzfeldts, Wm. Potter, and seven men.   1  
  4   Uintah Springs near Moroni  
  6-Nov       Sanpete County Chases Sawmill burned  
1854 6-Jan       Spring City Allred settlement burned  
  May       Treaty with Walker and Kanosh  
  8-Aug   2   William and Warren Weeks killed Cedar Valley  
1855 29-Jan   1     Walkara
died		 poisoned by Mormons  
      Arrapeen becomes Chief  
  19-Jul       Salmon River Mission  
      Salmon River Mission abandoned  
1856 21-Feb   5     Tintic War Tintic and Battest & 3 killed  
  4-Jun   4   Salt Creek Canyon  
1857   125   Mountain Meadows Massacre Piaute blammed for  
1858   2   Chicken Creek Josia Call & Samuel Brown  
  20-Sep       Salt Lake city Peter Gottfredson arrives  
      Johstons Army Arrives  
      Brigham Young orders Lot Smith to burn armies wagons  
        Mormons in the process stole 800 of the 1,400 head of cattle with the Army there. While Mormons severely punish the famished Indians for stealing their cattle, the Mormons stole from the United States Government not only cattle as Lot Smith led a raiding party under orders from Brigham Young and destroyed the armies "2720 pounds of ham, 92,700 of bacon, 167,900 of flour, 8910 of coffee, 1400 of sugar, 1333 of soap, 800 of sperm candles, 765 of tea, 7781 of hard bread, and 68,832 rations of desiccated vegetables. Another train was destroyed by the same party the next day on the Big Sandy, besides a few sutlers' wagons that were straggling behind."   
      Disease is spreading rampant among Indian population  
1860 1   Camp Floyd Peaceable Indian Killed
  1   Deep Creek Tooele Mail Station horses stolen  
  2 2   Smithfield Ira Merrill John Reed killed  
1861       Lincoln set aside 4 million acres of land Uinta reservation is formed  
1863 29-Jan   593     Bear River Shoshone massacre  
      Peter living in Sanpete and Severe Valley, in Indian camps  
  4-Apr   4     Pleasant Grove Little Soldier 2  
  5-May   1   Boxelder Sagawitch Band  
  10-Jun   2   Cedar Valley Stage attacked  
  30-Jul   12     Shell Creek Station  
      Peter Gottfredson in Thistle Valley  
1864       Indians beginning to go to reservation  
1865 9-Apr       Manti lowry triggers war Black Hawk War begins  
  10-Apr   2   Barney Ward and Peter Ludvigson killed  
      Mormon Population about 50,000  
      *Black Hawk War begins  
      *Black Hawk becomes War Chief Tabby successor to Aropeen as Chief  
  2   Twelve Mile Creek  
  12-Apr   2   Salina Canyon Col. Allred defeated  
  1   Fairview Jens Larsen  
  25-May   1   Fairview David Jones  
  26-May   6   Given Family Massacre  
  29-May   1   David Jones killed near Fairview  
  18-Jul   12     Grass Valley Masscre Warren Snow   1  
      Disease is spreading among Ute    
  7-Jun       Spanish Fork Treaty signed Mormons failed to keep their promises-it was not a ratified treaty  
  2   Salina R. Gillispie and A. Robinson killed  
           
  26-Jul   2     Attack at Glenwood  
  17-Oct   7   Ephriam Settlers killed   2  
  25-Nov   4   Raid on Circleville  
 
1866 20-Jan   7 2   Pipe Springs  
  12-Mar   1     Nephi Sanpitch taken captive  
  2-Apr   1 3   Short Creek  
  13-Apr   7 1   Salina Canyon 7 Ute killed  
  14-Apr   3     Indian break jail Manti 3 Indians killed  
  16-Apr         Kimball's & Conover's in Manti  
            Christian Larsen Killed Spanish Fork  
  3     Salina vacated 3 Ute killed 1 1  
  2     Fort Sanford Santick and Shegump killed 1 1  
  2 2   Marysvale 2 Ute killed 2 whites   1  
  1     Marysvale Little Indian girl murdered  
  1   Spanish Fork white killed  
  1     Springville  
  19-Apr   1     Sanpitch Murdered Black Hawk's father  
  21-Apr   18     Circleville Massacre Worst event of the war 1  
  22-Apr   2     Salina Vacated 2 Indians killed  
  2     Fort Sanford Seagump + 1killed  
      *Black Hawk makes peace pact  Canute Peterson Ephriam  
  1     Marysvale Piaute girl murdered  
  26-Apr   4 2   Little Diamond Battle Mountain wounded   1  
  28-Apr       Circleville abandoned  
  26-May       First Indian Raid on cattle Heber  
  10-Jun   2   Scipio Black Hawk takes 350 head of cattle  
      Battle at Gravely Ford Black Hawk & White Horse Wounded 2 1  
  24-Jun   1   Thistle Valley   1  
  26-Jun   2   General Erastus Snow sends 60 men to Green River Captain Andrus killed   1  
  16-Jul   2     Second Raid on cattle Heber   1 1  
  Aug       Third raid on cattle Heber  
  20-Aug   1     Fourth raid on cattle Heber  
  8-Oct       Fifth raid on cattle Heber  
  18-Sep   6     Red Lake battle 6 Ute killed General Snow wounded 1  
  27-Oct   3     Attack on Lee's Ranch   1  
      Nearly 70 Mormon villages evacuated Black Hawk has the upper hand  
1867 14-Jan       Black Hawk meets with Tabby    
  18-Jan   11     St. Geroge Col. Pierce and Andrews 11 Indians killed  
  21-Mar     4   Glenwood-Black Ridge 4 whites killed  
  15-Apr         Gen. R.T. Burton oredered to Sanpete  
  20-Apr         Glenwood, Richfield & Monroe vacated  
  22-Apr         Binder's infantry leaves SLC for Sanpete  
  1-Jun     1   Fountain Green Louis Lund killed  
  2-Jun     2   Major Vance & Sgt. Holtz Killed  Twelve Mile Canyon  
  10-Aug       Black Hawk sends word to Franklin Head August 10th peace talk  
  12-Aug       *Black Hawk tells Head stop fighting see page 374 about BH hair being cut Aug 12 Page 275 PG  
  20-Aug       Heber treaty Tabby/Joseph Murdock Aug 20  
      *Black Hawk begins his Mission of Peace  
  1   Sanpete Capt. Wm. Binder's Cavalry Adam Paul wounded 2  
  2   Spring City J. Meeks and A. Johnson killed  
      Spring City Raid    
  11     Pine Valley masscre  
  5-Sep   1   Warm Creek John Hay killed  
           
1868 21-Mar   1   Fort Mohave Edwin Wooley killed  
  1-Apr   3     Raid on Kane County    
  April   1 2   Battle at Rocky Ford Justusen and Wilson killed, White Horse Chief the one Black Hawk rescued at Gravely Ford 1  
           
  2 1   Buckhorn Springs near Beaver Wm. James Allred  
      Salt Creek Canyon Tabiona, James Ivie,  
  11-Jul   4     Battle at Rock Lake    
  19-Aug       Strawberry Treaty August 19th Black Hawk credited for it's success and Head    
           
  10-Nov   2     Wm. Allred Cottenwood Canyon murders 2 Indians  
1869 10-May       Transcontinental Railroad completed    
  1     Arropeen murdered Circa 1869 Exact date not known, covered up.  
           
1870       *Black Hawk's Mission of Peace Travels 200 miles horseback to Springville  
  26-Sep       Black Hawk dies at Spring Lake    
           
1872   3   Glenwood "the white horse chief" Shena- Vegan, Hans Gottfredson, Peter Oldroyd, Archibald Oldroyd, 1  
  6-Jun   1   Twelve Mile Creek Niels Heizelt killed  
  13-Aug   1   Fairview Nathan Stewart killed  
  12-Aug   1   Tabby can't control his warriors boy Stewart killed Spanish Fork  
  17-Aug   1   Mt. Pleasant telegraph office Jerimiah Page killed by Richard Smyth dressed as an Indian  
  17-Sep       Peace agreement at Mt. Pleasant enter names  
  1   Fairview Nathan Stewart Killed   1  
      Treaty at Springville Tabby signed  
  26-Sep   1   Spring City Daniel Miller killed, Peter Gottfredson present  
  1     Tabby died and buried at Heber He claimed to be 117 years old    
             
      Mormon population about 180,000      
Total recorded deaths      
Indian   932     22 20
Whites     238  
Government Census Indian population      
1909      
         
Indian Pop. 2300      
White Pop.   370,000    
Indian deaths -24318      
White deaths   238  
   
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Phil:
The number of deaths are as recorded in historical accounts. The exact number that died from disease such as smallpox and measles was never recorded. The staggering decline in Indian population is monumental.