Kansai^ Academi/ of Science. 



THE SHOSHONI-GOSHIP INDIANS. 



Albert B. Reagan. 



THIS group of Indians is locally known as the Goshute 

 tribe. From correspondence with the Ethnological Bu- 

 reau, it seems that no one has ever written them up in any 

 way. From what I can learn they were first visited by the 

 Mormons. At that time they dominated western Utah and 

 Eastern Nevada south of the middle of the Great Salt Lake 

 desert, far into the south half of these two states. After the 

 discovery of gold in California the Overland route was made 

 through the center of their territory within thirteen miles of 

 the present Deep Creek reservation. 



Following the middle of the last century, these Indians 

 began to commit depredations on the settlers and on the Over- 

 land Route. The Overland station, just over the pass in the Deep 

 Creek range, twenty-eight miles northeast of the Deep Creek 

 Indian reservation office, was captured and burned and its in- 

 mates killed. This station was half way between Deep Creek 

 (Ibapah post office) and Calleo eastward on the Lincoln High- 

 way. A well and a rock wall still remain of this station to re- 

 Djind one of these old days. Deep Creek station, twelve miles 

 north of the agency, fared better, as there were more whites 

 near it. Eight Mile station, eight miles further west on the 

 present Lincoln Highway, while able to withstand the attacks, 

 had many a grim day. At one time, on the route from Deep 

 Creek station to Eight Mile, the stage was attacked ; the stage 

 driver and the only passenger w^ere killed, but the teams at a 

 breakneck speed rushed down the road and through Eight Mile 

 station gates with their dead. About the same time the stage 

 coming from the west to Eight Mile was attacked and the 

 driver killed, but, as in the previous case, the frantic horses 

 gained the station with the stage and their dead driver. The 

 graves of these slaughtered men are just a little west of the 

 old station house ; and the old adobe fort, though now the resi- 

 dence of Mr. George Etta, has the bullet marks in its walls to 

 remind one of the Indian attacks in those grim days. It is al- 

 leged that the old Indians now living took part in those raids. 



To stop the depredations the War Department rounded up 

 the Indians and compelled them to make a treaty with the Gov- 



