Before permanent settlement, Ogden Valley was a summer home of the Northwestern Shoshone, who called themselves the Newe and knew the valley as Ango-we-ya-dye, “where the red berries grow,” living from its water, fish, game, berries, roots, and seeds in portable kahni-a shelters. In the first half of the 19th century, the valley lay within Northwestern Shoshone territory stretching from Davis County to northern Idaho and from Wyoming to Nevada under Chief Sagwitch and Chief Little Soldier, and trappers and explorers including Peter Skene Ogden, Osborne Russell, and Captain Howard Stansbury interacted with Shoshone in and around the valley. During the settlement years of Eden, Huntsville, and Liberty from 1850 to 1900, encounters between settlers and Shoshone brought both trade and friendship, but immigrant arrival in the mid-1800s also created competition for resources, while disease, loss of land and water, the transcontinental railroad, and warfare decimated the Shoshone population, including the loss of hundreds of Northwestern Shoshone lives in the Bear River Massacre on Jan. 19, 1863, near Preston, Idaho. In this same valley, David Eccles, born in 1849, rose from poverty after his family immigrated from near Glasgow and Paisley, Scotland, to Eden, Utah, in 1863. The family, converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, came with little beyond William Eccles’s wood lathe, and young David supported them by peddling his blind father’s wooden wares through the valley and down to Ogden. After a time in Oregon cutting cordwood and working on the California and Oregon Railroad lines, he returned to Ogden Valley at age 20, bought a yoke of oxen, and began logging in Ogden Canyon, launching a business career that grew into more than 50 enterprises in railroads, lumber, mining, construction, banking, factories, and hotels across Utah, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. He helped found Utah Construction Company in 1890, became Utah’s first multimillionaire, served as mayor of Ogden, was known for generosity to families, businesses, and communities, and at his death on December 6, 1912, while hurrying for a train from Salt Lake City to Ogden, he was president of 17 corporations and seven banks and acting director of 24 businesses, with his death honored across five Western states.