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In October of 1879 Mackenzie and several companies of the 4th Calvary received orders to proceed to Colorado to help maintain peace due to an Ute uprising earlier that year at the White River Agency. Colonel Mackenzie and his troops remained in Colorado throughout 1880 and into the following year. On September 1, 1881 Mackenzie oversaw the removal of the Uncompahgre Ute band from their homeland on the Western Slope of Colorado to a Utah reservation. Mackenzie accomplished this difficult and delicate task with tact, diplomacy and a firm hand. No blood was shed.