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Photograph taken June 4, 2008.
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Battle of Paiute Pass
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On July 15, 1884, a U. S.
Calvary scout named Joseph S.
Wormington and a cowboy names
James "Rowdy" Higgins were
killed in a battle with
indians at nearby Paiute Pass.
These men were part of a posse
of cattlemen and Sixth Calvary
- F - troop soldiers from Fort
Lewis, Colorado who were
chasing a band of renegade Ute
and Paiute indians led by
Mancos Jim. The indians had
stolen 150 head of horses from
the round-up grounds in
Verdure, Utah. After a 75 mile
chase the Utes and Paiutes led
the possee and soldiers into
an ambush. Two months after
the battle, prospectors Cass
Hite and Joe Duckett found and
buried the remains. The Utes
and Paiutes were watching the
U. S. Government absorb their
homelands. They fought back in
the only way they knew how.
The soldier gave his life in
the service of his country.
The cowboy did the tough job
he was paid to do and a little
more. All of them played out
their heroic roles in this
epoch struggle to settle the
old west.
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