Salt Creek Canyon massacre

Name: Salt Creek Canyon massacre
Start: 1858

1858 CE.

Shown on the map at 39.703°, -111.707°.

The Salt Creek Canyon massacre occurred on June 4, 1858, when four Danish immigrants were ambushed and killed by unidentified Indians in Salt Creek Canyon, a winding canyon of Salt Creek east of present-day Nephi, in Juab County, Utah.

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