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Show Camp Cavalcade SHADOWY figures in a cavalcade of American history such as the men behind the names of the great army cantonments scattered all over the United States, where young Americans are learning to be soldiers sol-diers in order to defend their country coun-try when the need arises. Near Nevada, Mo., stands a camp which bears the name of one of the y greatest explorers explor-ers in the annals of America. He was William Clark, younger brother of George Rogers Clark, conqueror of the Old Northwest during the Revolution. Revo-lution. Born in Virginia in 1770, William Clark was appointed a O William Clark lieutenant in the regular army in 1792 and served with Gen. Anthony Wayne in the campaign against the Indians in 1793-94 which ended in the decisive Battle of Fallen Timbers. Tim-bers. A brother lieutenant in that army was a redheaded Virginian named Meriwether Lewis who was to be Clark's partner in an undertaking undertak-ing which would make both men famous. That was the exploration of the vast empire in the West acquired by President Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. They started up the Missouri river on May 14, 1804, and after a journey of 8,000 miles which took them, through many perils, clear to the Pacific coast, they returned to St. Louis on September Sep-tember 23, 1806. Camp Clark in Missouri Mis-souri honors his memory, as Fort Lewis in Washington honors that of his partner in their "magnificent adventure." ad-venture." Down in Texas is another camp named for a white man who exerted unusual influence over the Indians. It is Camp Bullis, near San Antonio, An-tonio, which perpetuates the fame of Brig. Gen. John Lapham Bullis. He served three years in the Union armyduring the Civil war, became second lieutenant in the regular army in 1867 and during the next 14 years made an enviable record as an Indian fighter. In 1882 the Texas legislature passed a resolution thanking him "for the gallant and efficient services in repelling the depredations of Indians and other enemies of the frontier of Texas." Promoted to captain, Bullis was named agent for the Apache Indians at San Carlos, Ariz., one of the most difficult and dangerous posts in the West. But he won the respect and admiration of these savages so completely com-pletely that when he left San Carlos at me ena oi iour years xney were a peaceable and prosperous tribe. Soon afterwards he was named agent for the Pueblos and Jicarilla Apaches in New Mexico and his four years there were equally successful. Bullis was retired from the army as a brigadier general in 1905 and died at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on May 26, 1911. Camp Boyd near El Paso, Texas, is named for another army officer who served in two wars. Charles Trumbull Boyd (1871-1916), a native of Iowa, was graduated from West Point in 1896 and became a cavalry officer. He saw active service in the Philippines in 1898 to 1900 and, after an interim as professor of military mil-itary science and tactics at the University Uni-versity of Nevada and a practicing lawyer in California, returned to the Islands as a major of the Philippine Scouts. In 1916 he joined his old regiment in the regular army, the Fourth cavalry, in the punitive expedition ex-pedition against Villa . into Mexico and was killed in action at Carrizal, on June 21 the only American officer offi-cer to die in this "Second War with Mexico." Camp McCoy, near Sparta, Wis., also honors a veteran of two wars Maj. Gen. Robert Bruce McCoy, who captained a company of Wisconsin Wis-consin volunteers in the Spanish-American Spanish-American war, commanded the 125th infantry and later the 128th infantry of the Thirty-second division divi-sion of the A.E.F. and represented the war department in establishing the reservation which has been used for war games in recent years and which has borne his name since 1926. Camp Fordyce in the town of Sam gm Fordyce, Texas, is named for S. " W. Fordyce, a leading attorney of St. Louis who served as counsel for the War Finance corporation during dur-ing the World war. He was a director di-rector of the M. K. & T. railroad and a director of many important corporations in the Southwest. 'Soldiers of Freedom "To the Soldiers of the National Army: The heart of the whole country coun-try is with you. Everything that you do will be watched with deep interest For this great war draws us all together, makes us all comrades com-rades and brothers, as all true Americans felt themselves to be when we first made good our independence. inde-pendence. The eyes of all the world will be upon you, because you are in some special sense the soldiers of freedom." President Woodrow Wilson's Wil-son's message, September 3, 1917. |