Peteetneet Creek

Peteetneet Creek is a stream named after the Ute Chief Peteetneet who lived near it, in the vicinity of what is now Payson, Utah.[1]

History

Peteneet Creek was a good camping spot on the Mormon pioneer and 49er wagon route between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles.[2] The Latter-day Saints first settled in Payson in 1850.[3] From 1855 the wagon route was called the Salt Lake Road, a freight route used each year from late fall through winter into early spring, between Southern California and Utah until the arrival of the railroad in Utah the late 1860s.

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Peteneet Creek
  2. ↑ Randolph Barnes Marcy, The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions, PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT, 1859; LIST OF ITINERARIES; ITINERARY VI.--From Great Salt Lake City to Los Angeles and San Francisco, California
  3. ↑ Jenson, Andrew. Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1941) p. 644