 Well, after several journeys through this territory, the mountain men, the Shoshones, and the Utes become quite well acquainted and get along for the most part without any major incidents. The goodwill between the Great Basin peoples and the mountain men would, in a measure, transfer to the Mormons when they arrived in 1847. The mountain men era from 1825 to 1840 was the thing that set the stage for the Indians, the Goshutes and the Utes and the