1855 – died 1886) was a South African (Xhosa Tribe) who emigrated to the United States with a white Latter-day Saint family in 1861.
[1] The War began when Dutch settlers introduced cattle disease to South Africa which led to a famine.
[2] A white family who belonged to the LDS Church, Henry and Ruth Talbot, found Fango on their property.
[4] Gobo Fango moved to the Goose Creek Valley of Idaho Territory by the early 1880s where he worked as a sheepherder and became a business partner with Walter Matthews and Edward Hunter.
Consequently, a cowboy named Franke Bedke accused Fango of trespassing and attempted to force him to leave the valley.