Ute Indian Chief Wakara (Walker) Did he lead Thomas Rhoades to a huge cache of gold in the Uintas? He would then trade his captives and animals in Santa Fe for food, ammunition, blankets, feed and supplies. Wakara would also raid neighboring interior tribes such as the Paiutes and enslave their children. Wakara’s Utes would seasonally migrate to California-Mexican territory at the time-to steal cattle and horses from their Spanish/Mexican enemies. The Utes were still reeling from the changes they had been adapting to from the past 300 years of Spanish domination.The problem Wakara suffered was that his lifestyle relied on slavery and theft. Young and the other Mormon leaders also had a high opinion of Wakara. They conducted their depredations with form, and under the color of trade and toll for passing through their country.” “They were robbers of a higher order than those of the desert.
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Abandoning the popular wikiup shelters, Wakara and his tribe adopted the portable teepee. Wakara used a single-action shooter pistol, which he carried with him at all times.
They used horses to conduct seasonal migrations for hunting game and plundering enemies.
His band of Timpanogos Utes was one of the few groups of indians in Utah who were well-trained equestrians. Is there a Ute account of this same legend? Ute Indians and The Lost Rhoades MineĬhief Wakara was a highly successful leader because he learned to take advantage of the introduction of the horse. The mystery of the Lost Rhoades Mines persists because the history is so one-sided. There were over two hundred and forty years of Ute-Spanish relations predating the Mormon pioneers. But actual records of the Utes and their interaction with the Spanish empire date back to the early 1600s. Myths, legends or facts could be unraveled with more study.Ĭurrent Utah high school textbooks begin with friars Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante visiting the area in the late 1770s. Parowan Gap is certainly a Fremont Indian or Aztec site. There is a growing body of evidence showing that the Aztec empire did indeed extend far beyond the Four Corners area. The early history of Utah is incredibly incomplete. But there was much more gold coming into the Mormon Pioneer economy from undocumented sources. Where did he get around sixty pounds of gold worth $17,000? According to the church it all came from Sutter’s Mill, this is likely true. Rhoades tithed so much gold he was given a house next to John Taylor, Brigham Young and Willard Richards. Thomas Rhoades, however, was described in his obituary in the Deseret News in 1890 as “a mighty hunter of grizzly bears.” In fact, Thomas Rhoades did deposit more gold for tithing than any other pioneer. Phony Obituary in the Deseret News: What did they have to hide? Gale Rhoades was certainly a con-man exploiting his relatives. Gale Rhoades died owing thousands of dollars to investors. Speculators would finance his attempts to find the gold based on his convincing evidence and his published book Faded Footprints: The Lost Rhoades Gold Mines & Other Hidden Treasures of the Uintas. He made a living establishing illegal prospecting corporations using a gold nugget he claimed to have originated from the Uintas. Gale Rhoades spent most of his life following in the footsteps of his great-grandfather Thomas Rhoades, attempting to find lost treasure. Historians now discredit the story that the Ute Indians gave gold to the Mormon pioneers, and also allowed Thomas Rhoades, followed by his son Caleb, to mine gold from the Uintas for several decades. Chief Wakara allegedly accompanied Rhoades the location of a fabulously rich mine, the wealth of which was to be used only to benefit the LDS church. Thomas Rhoades was commissioned as Brigham Young’s representative to the Ute Chief Wakara. Old-timers say “for every ounce of mined gold, gallons of blood have been spilt.” The most sensational Utah tale concerns the lost Rhoades Mine.
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