Sagwitch

"The Northwestern Shoshone knew as home the northern Great Salt Lake Valley, Bear River, Cache Valley, and Bear Lake - northern Utah. Sagwitch was born in this core fur trapping region at a time when his people had close associations with the mountain men. Sagwitch came to manhood and a leadership position as wagon trains began crossing his people's territory. Wagons later brought Mormon settlers, who by the late 1850s were occupying Cache Valley, the Northwestern Shoshone heartland. Emigrants and settlers reduced Shoshone access to traditional village sites and food resources. It only took a…