Last Peace Treaty (Black Hawk Indian War)

The Black Hawk War was Utah's longest and deadliest conflict between settlers and Native people — not a single battle but seven years of raids and reprisals. It began in 1865 as Ute, Paiute, and allied bands, starving and pushed off their lands in these valleys, fought the Latter-day Saint towns spreading over them. Their leader, a Ute the settlers called Black Hawk, sought peace himself in 1867, riding town to town to plead for it before his death. This Mount Pleasant marker remembers a treaty that helped close that war.

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 — steps away
• William Stuart Seeley House — steps away
• Victory Bell Monument — steps away
• The Liberal Hall — steps away