502 OCEAN TO OCEAN ON HORSEBACK. 



precious thing had he. Willi part of it he bought this 

 tract of land from Goodyear. It proved to be a most 

 fertile spot. Brethren came to it from Salt Lake City. 

 Gentiles came from everywhere. The settlement grew 

 and prospered. 



In 1849, people began to talk of locating a city right 

 there at the junction of the two rivers. 



In 1850, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and 

 others, laid out the settlement and called it Ogden, 

 after Peter Skeen Ogden, the explorer, long since dead, 

 but whose dashing, daring, })rilliant adventures were 

 still charming to the men of that wild land. Every 

 time tlie city's name is mentioned it is another proof 

 that although, 



** The man might die, his memory lives." 



Before a year was over a school house was built in 

 the city. 



Then came that un-American sight, a w^all of pro- 

 tection built around a city. It cost $40,000, which 

 amount was raised by taxation. 



About this time several suburban settlements were 

 formed, but bears, wolves, and Indians soon drove the 

 venturesome suburbanites within city limits. 



Just then a party of immigrants encamping on the 

 Malade River shot two Indian women. By way of 

 reprisal the savages killed a pioneer named Campbell 

 who was building a sawmill near Ogden, and threatened 

 to massacre the entire population of the town. Matters 

 began to look serious, and the commander of the 

 Nauvoo Legion gave the Indians chase, and so over- 

 whelmed them that they at once retreated, taking with 



