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Show Wanda Powell addresses lecture to Camp May Ruple Camp May Ruple held their March meeting at the home of Erma Casada with Wanda Jacobsen and Vella Smith as co-hostesses. Lunch was served lo ten members! Captain Lyla Bennion conducted. Minutes of the February meeting were ready by secretary Marjorie Aklund. Historian Wanda Powell gave a history of the military frontier from 1872 to 1912. Fort Cameron, Fort Thornburg and Fort Duchesne were discussed. After the outbreak from the Uintah Reservation in 1872 the government began to provide for the Indian's needs and it was not until 1879 that the necessity for further military establishments arose in Utah. As agricultural settlements advanced ad-vanced throughout Eastern Utah and Colorado,, conflict between,, the , .frontiersmen .fron-tiersmen and ' roaming Lite Indians became more frequent. Indian agent, Nathan C. Meeker, asked for military aid and Major Thomas T. Thornbure with 200 cavalry troops from Fort Fred Steel, Wyo., answered his call. Turmoil began to subside in September 1884. Alice Warren gave the lesson, "-Portraits "-Portraits of a Danish Family-The History of Neils and Maren Bartelsen." Hostesses for the April meeting will be Alice Warren, Erma Reynolds and Lavina Kidd. |