Danilson's Indian Bureau Report 1875

Major Danilson's (the spring running through Springfield bears his name) report for the U.S. Government regarding the Fort Hall Reservation (from The Report of the Commission of Indian Affairs for 1875). Note the paragraph on Mormons converting the natives:

Ralph Thurston is the author of "Tilden", a novel set in turn-of-the-century (twentieth) Bingham County. You can find a copy in Blackfoot at Kesler's Market, in Idaho Falls at Winnie and Mo's, and online at https://www.amazon.com/Tilden-Ralph-Thurston/dp/166557223X?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER