In 1849, at Chief Wakara’s invitation, President Brigham Young sent about 225 Mormon pioneers to settle in the Sanpete valley. At first, relations between the Mormon settlers and the local Ute Indians were helpful and cooperative, but cultural clashes soon brought tensions that eventually led to open warfare. Over the next twenty years, both Mormon settlers and Native Americans lost their lives in violent skirmishes, even as some personal encounters showed a desire to live together in peace. Peter Mikel Munk of Manti farmed near a Native American encampment and discovered that Chief Aropeen had been sleeping in his hay wagon and eating his leftover lunch; later, when Peter lacked enough scrub oak poles to finish fencing his farm, three Native American women arrived carrying oak limbs cut to the proper length as a gift from Chief Aropeen, revealing trust and understanding between the two men. In another story, Bothilda Hansen, working alone as a 15-year-old house servant, was startled by a large Indian who came seeking milk; after she offered milk and then cream without success, she finally filled his bucket with buttermilk, which he accepted and carried away across the fields.