Last Peace Treaty

The Black Hawk War ended here, at Bishop Seeley's home in Mt. Pleasant, on September 7, 1872 — seven years of raids and reprisals closed with a treaty, brokered with federal General Henry Morrow and signed by Ute sub-chiefs who had fought under Black Hawk. The war had been ruinous: it cost Utah more than a million and a half dollars and over seventy settler lives — and, as even this pioneer marker admits, several times that many Ute lives. That lopsided toll is the truest measure of a conflict rooted in the loss of Native land.

What the plaque says

On Sept. 7, 1872, the final peace treaty of the Utah Black Hawk Indian War was signed at the home of Bishop Seeley by General Henry A. Morrow, Orson Hyde, Amasa Tucker, Fredrick Olson, Reddick Allred and William S. Seeley. Representing the Indians were sub-chiefs Tabiona, White Hare, Angitzebl and others who served under Chief Black Hawk. The war cost Utah $1,535,000.00, the lives of more than 75 whites and several times that many Indians. Upper Plaque The bell atop this marker hung in the school tower where for 60 years it tolled the time, the curfew, and warned of floods or fire.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mount Pleasant — steps away
  A National Register Main Street and Utah's oldest boarding school
• Spring City — 4.8 mi
  An entire pioneer town preserved on the National Register
• Fairview — 5.9 mi
  The north gate of the Heritage Highway, home to a near-complete Ice Age mammoth
• Skyline Drive — 9.4 mi
  A hundred miles of dirt along the 10,000-foot crest of the Wasatch Plateau

More markers nearby

• Last Peace Treaty (Black Hawk Indian War) — steps away
• William Stuart Seeley House — steps away
• Victory Bell Monument — steps away
• The Liberal Hall — steps away