There is an ongoing debate as to where the Blackhawk Treaty was signed or agreed to. Even Hilda in the Mt. Pleasant History Book didn't make note of it.
When I first joined the Mt. Pleasant Historical Association I made a call to the Utah Historical Society and asked if they had the treaty there. They told me that there was nothing signed on paper and that it was just a word-of-mouth agreement.
Virginia Neilson, of Ephraim, said that the actual treaty was signed under a tree there in Ephraim.
John Alton Peterson in his book "Utah's Black Hawk War" states that "Black Hawk and his band of thirty warriors and their families totaling nearly a hundred individuals came to Mt. Pleasant to meet with Brigham Young near the end of June1868. The church president
appears to have been unavailable, but Orson Hyde met with the Indians in the settlement's social hall where they signed a treaty of peace. Mounted on a new saddle, a gift from Young and head, Black Hawk left the conference committed again to try to get the other members of his confederacy to come to terms."
In the footnotes of Peterson's book reference is made to Telegram of Orson Hyde to Brigham Young 31, June 1868.
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