RICHMMOND - There are numerous stories about Northwestern Band of Shoshone Indian interactions with the pioneers that settled Cache Valley.

The Richmond Encyclopedia compiled by Bryce Holt, 25, has several personal histories of the town’s beginnings, the pioneers and some of the interactions with the indigenous Shoshone people.

One of those interactions documented in the Richmond Encyclopedia tells how a one-year-old Shoshone child was traded for to a pioneer family for some food.

Betsh, or Bessie, was born in 1865 in the Northwestern Shoshone Indian Tribe near the Bear River west of Franklin.

She accompanied her grandfather to Richmond to find food for the family. The grandfather traded the little girl for a large sack of food to the John and Jane Croshaw family. Currently, there is n

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