Support Local Journalism Donate“Old-time people in Red Cliff … they would always roam around Battle Mountain and find arrowheads and even bullets and stuff, signs of battle,” Heicher said Friday of the late 1860s conflict. And so this battle went on supposedly for three weeks to a month all over Battle Mountain.” “Ultimately, the Utes drove them out, and that’s how it got the name Battle Mountain. The Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes live on reservation land in southwest Colorado. Heicher said there are local historical recollections of various Ute tribes using Eagle County for traditional hunting and foraging even into the 1880s.