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Show 1 , time of th dinners Of West f Encampment In I Provo, 1924 'j j ' By PETER (iOTTFREDKON. '. ! iiljutaut (ieiicral, I'tali Indian War ; 1 Veterans. 1 After visiting I'rovo and looking i Ver tlie feasible places for holding J ii annual encampment of the ! ' WiniHM-s of the A'est," the Piouers ' , ' hd Indian "War Veterans of Utah t ' '.id tlu-ir di'sceiidents, this year, the ' I , ost logical place i Provo ami the , ! i ,nst appropriate lo(-a(Iou is the y Joueer park, for its beauty, name . jid the errand inonunient erected ere in honor of the Indian war . t era us. (I'rovo was the starting out point I I r most all the early expeditions j 1 for marauding Indians, j ' ' I About the last of February IS 10 i ' .lomd John Scott, with his small j ' upany of Vtah militia with the i ' 1 le chief's son as a cruido, left; : jj'vo in the nij:htf crossed over the ,ivo lleiich and surprised a small ,id of thievini; Indians, who were ' ,.ler Chief Cone and Uomau Xose i . Kattle Creek. They killed the ,! ,ii and took the squaws and pa-.' pa-.' ! , .sos prisoners. n the spring of 1C0 the preat , i-day battle was fouirht oji the ', ; i- vo river. Captain Peter AY. ' :' lover was in charge of the Provo : j j'imront wlien one nian was killed and a number wounded. The Indians In-dians were defeated and most of them killed. In when the AYalker war broke out, Provo was the center of action, with Captain Conover in command, under General Daniel H. AYella. In 1S5G under the leadership of the renegade Chief Tintic, the Tin-tic Tin-tic war was on. I'rovo was the out-fitilig out-fitilig point, with such men ns Captain Cap-tain Conover, Geojge Parish, John Clark, George AV. Beau and others of I'rovo at the front and during the Klaok Hawk war in IScfi and 18(17, the starting point from Utah county for the front was at Provo. It would be but fitting that one of the last great encampments be held at Provo and it seems that Provo should be proud of the privilege of entertaining the remaining few of the ''Winners of the West" the pioneers pio-neers and Indian war veterans and their descendents. The Indian war veterans remaining remain-ing nearly all have passed the allotted allot-ted age of men. three score and ten, and so too have the pioners. It seems that nothing should he too good for them, who have made possible pos-sible the beautiful homes, surroundings surround-ings and conditions of this pioneer state of this great western empire. |
