M. Guy Bishop writes about the history of Sevier County, Utah in the Utah Centennial County History Series.
"Sevier County was first settled by Mormon pioneers in the mid-1850s, as farming settlements were established along the Sevier River Valley to accommodate the increasing numbers of immigrants to Utah. The fledgling settlements were soon abandoned, however, in the mid-1860s as a result of the Black Hawk Indian War, in which many county residents lost their lives. Native Americans had lived in the area for thousands of years and fought aggressively to keep this harsh but rich land as white settlement increasingly disrupted their traditional ways of life."
Published by the Utah State Historical Society and the Sevier County Commission
