The Unwanted Indians: The Southern Utes in Southeastern Utah BY GREGORY C. T H O M P S O N
1879 THE U T E S OF COLORADO were disgruntled with the w7ay their government agent was treating them. Trouble seemed imminent and, indeed, it occurred. The events, although far from southeastern Utah, played a major part in the attempts to make San Juan County into a Ute Indian reservation. IN
Mr. Thompson is program coordinator at the American West Center, University of Utah, and a doctoral candidate in history. A version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the U t a h State Historical Society at Blanding, September 1979. The accompanying maps were prepared by Catherine Farr.
Pine River store and post office on the Southern Ute Reservation in Colorado, ca. 1890. Courtesy of Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango.
