Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887

"The following years were very hard for the survivors. The federal government negotiated a treaty with them but failed to get Sagwitch's signature when, enroute to the meeting, he was arrested and then wounded by a white assassin. With the world around him changed, Sagwitch sought accommodation with the most immediate threat to his people's traditional way of survival - the Mormons occupying Shoshone homelands. This, then, is also the story of the conversion of Sagwitch and his band to the Mormon Church. Though not without conflicts and problems, that conversion was long lasting and thorough. Sagwitch and other Northwestern Shoshone would demonstrate in important ways their new religious devotion."--BOOK JACKET.