May 2022

The Last Indian War

Chief Posey, Ute leader during the Last Indian War. Photo courtesy Utah State Historical Society, Mike Hurst donor

As a young man growing up in the small southeastern Utah town of Blanding, I often heard the story of Paiute warrior William Posey, and how he sparked the last Indian war in the United States.

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