Black Hawk and a historic marker at Payson, Utah. USHS collections.
The Circleville Massacre: A Brutal Incident in Utah's Black Hawk War BY ALBERT WINKLER
I N A P R I L leee THE WHITE SETTLERS OF Circleville annihilated a band of captive Paiute Indians, including helpless women and children. This incident of the Black Hawk War of 1865-68 was the largest massacre of Indians in Utah's history. The mass murder seemed necessary to those who were anxious about possibly continuing Indian hostilities. The whites of Circleville had suffered dearly in a previous Indian raid and
Dr. Winkler is an archivist in the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
