Thursday, Sep 10, 1857

?: Indians attack Dukes Train at Beaver; Tanner, Dukes, and Collins shot.

Daylight: Indians "made a determined attack."

Daylight: Indians attack; Santa Clara Indians lose 1 killed, 3 wounded. "This so enraged that band that they left for home that day and drove off a number of cattle with them."

7:00 am: Haslam arrives at Brigham Young's office

?: George W. Hancock tells Garland Hurt "that the California emigrants on the southern route had got themselves into a very serious difficulty with the Piedes."

Morning: Two emigrants men fill buckets at the spring.

12:00 pm: White, Stewart, Arthur, Wilden, Hopkins and Tate arrive at Mountain Meadows

About noon: "Several men" arrived from Cedar City. Move camp 400 yards. Mormons take pot shots at emigrants.

Emigrants chain wagons together.

1:00 pm: Haslam departs Brigham Young's office

1:00 pm: Main militia party under Higbee leaves Cedar City

Afternoon: Lee reconnoiters camp and is detected; emigrants send out two little boys. Lee persuades Indians not to kill the boys. Stays on west side two hours.

Afternoon: "the messenger from Cedar City returned. He said that President Haight had gone to Parowan to confer with Colonel Dame, and a company of men would be sent out to-morrow (Friday). "The Indians and men were engaged in boiling beef and making their hides up into lassoes."

Nightfall: Three emigrants (including Abel Baker, Joseph Miller, and "William B. Jones, Caldwell County, Missouri"?) leave the wagon fort for the California Road.

Evening: Militia arrives from Cedar [232]. Total force now 54 whites "and over three hundred Indians." All-night council held.

10:00 pm: Nephi Johnson, Higbee, and Militia arrive at Mountain Meadows.

?: "Tutsegubbets & Yungweids 2 Piede Chievs came from the Santa Clarra Brigham ordained Tutsegubeds an elder." Huntington journal date.

Date: J. Ward Christian, writing on 4 October from San Bernardino, reports the massacre occurred "between the 10th and 12th ultimo."

Date: Judge Cradlebaugh: "Thus, on the 10th day of September, 1857, was consummated one of the most cruel, cowardly and bloody murders known in our history."

[Source: Mountain Meadows Massacre timeline, Will Bagley]