Tutsegabit

Tutsegabit

Tutsegabit was a 19th century leader of the Piedes bands of the Piute tribe.

In 1857 Tutsegabit was the chief of six bands of Piedes. [ [http://farms.byu.edu/display.php?table=review&id=509 A Trial Lawyer Reviews Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets - FARMS Review ] ]

Somewho?|date=August 2007 have accused Tutsegabit of being one of the people behind the Mountain Meadows massacre.Fact|date=August 2007 However there is no evidence that he was anywhere close to Mountain Meadows at that time. It is known that Tutsegabit was in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 1, 1857 and that he was ordained an elder by Brigham Young. [ [http://byustudies.byu.edu/Reviews/Pages/reviewdetail.aspx?reviewID=95 Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and... - BYU Studies Review ] ] . To have been present at Mountain Meadows when the massacre occurred, he would have had to have returned to southern Utah by September 11. Dimick B. Huntington in his journal claims that Tutsegabit was in Salt Lake City on September 10.Fact|date=August 2007 Wilford Woodruff records Tutsegabit's ordination as an elder in his September 16 journal entry,Fact|date=August 2007 but Woodruff does not indicate what day the actual ordination occurred on.

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