History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, Utah (1898) is a late-nineteenth-century county history that documents the settlement and development of central Utah, combining town sketches, event chronologies, and biographical profiles of prominent pioneer citizens with a substantial section devoted to what the authors term “Indian wars.” The book’s Indian accounts focus primarily on the interactions and conflicts between Mormon settlers and Indigenous peoples of the region—especially Ute and Paiute groups—during the mid-1800s, with particular attention to events connected to Wakara’s War and, more extensively, the Utah Black Hawk War (1865–1872). These narratives describe raids, militia responses, abandoned settlements, and defensive measures taken by local communities in Sanpete and Emery counties, often presented as chronological incident reports or recollections from settlers and militia members. While the work preserves valuable details such as dates, locations, names, and local impacts of these conflicts, its portrayal of Native Americans reflects the settler-centric perspective common to its time, emphasizing frontier danger and pioneer hardship rather than Indigenous motivations, land rights, or cultural context. As a result, the book is most useful today as a record of how Indian–settler conflicts were understood and remembered by late-19th-century Utah communities, rather than as a balanced account of Indigenous history.