Massacre at Bear River

This riveting account narrates the events leading up to the first and bloodiest Indian massacre. The author describes the three major players the Shoshoni, the military, the Mormon settlers and their leaders in January of 1863 along what later became the Utah-Idaho border.The Bear River Massacre on Jan. 29, 1863 claimed at least 250 Shoshoni lives and changed the culture of the people that lived along what later became the Utah-Idaho border.