HISTORY LESSONS: What happened to Agent Danforth?

MEEKER | There were four Indian agents appointed to the area prior to Nathan Meeker’s arrival on the scene in 1878. Two of those agents, Joseph Littlefield and Edward Danforth, were missionaries sent from The American Unitarian Church based in Boston. Their goal was to convert the Utes to Christianity and show them that not all whites were here to take advantage of them, lie, or steal their allotments. I am not sure how well…