A Favorite Recruiting Place on the Old Spanish Trail
In this vicinity, September 7-11, 1857 occurred on of the most lamentable tragedies in the annals of the West. A company of about 140 Arkansas and Missouri emigrants led by Captain Charles Fancher, enroute to California, was attacked by white men and Indians. All but 17, being small children, were killed.John D. Lee, who confessed participation as leader was legally executed here March 23, 1877. Most of the emigrants were buried in their own defense pits.
