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Sanpitch is almost certainly not the same person as the Shoshone chief of the same name who was alive in 1870. [4] Some sources indicate that he, or his grandfather of the same name, is the namesake of Sanpete County, the Sanpete Valley, the San Pitch Mountains, and the Sanpitch River. However, all of them share the origin of their names: the ...
Sanpitch (Ute chief) (killed 1866), chief of the Sanpits tribe who lived in the Sanpete Valley, Utah, US Sanpitch (Shoshone chief) (alive in 1870), associated with the Bear River Massacre , Idaho, US
The Saga of the Sanpitch was a collection of biographical short stories, published annually from 1969 to 1998, about early Scandinavian immigrants to the Sanpete Valley. External links [ edit ]
The chiefs, Walkara and Sowiette, asked Mormon leader Brigham Young to settle a group of his people in the valley of Sanpitch. [5] Young sent a party to explore the area in August of that year. It was deemed favorable to settlement, and Brigham Young called Isaac Morley and George Washington Bradley to organize about fifty families to move ...
The San Pitch River, extending 65 miles (105 km), is the primary watercourse of the Sanpete Valley and drains into the Sevier River in southwestern Sanpete. The river is named for the Ute chief Sanpitch, who also gives his name to the San Pitch Mountains and Sanpete County.
The highpoint of the range is Salt Creek Peak, 9,997 feet (3,047 m), [1] located at the north terminus of the range, and close to the Wasatch Range. The center of the range lies between Big Baldy, 8,775 feet (2,675 m) southeasterly, and Little Red Hill, 6,836 feet (2,084 m), at center-northwest.
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Linnie Taylor Marchant Findlay (April 22, 1919 – January 10, 2009) [1] was a writer-historian based in Ephraim, Utah.A native of Ioka, Utah, [2] she is cited as a founding editor of the Saga of the Sanpitch, an annually-published collection of historical short-stories about Scandinavian immigrants and their descendants in Utah's Sanpete Valley. [3]