User talk:Quiet Dave

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Camp Floyd
Camp Floyd is an interesting tale of a government boondoggle that costs millions, and could have been a government collapsing scandle if it hadn't been dwarfed by the onset of the Civil War, a real example of a "wag the dog" story of a psuedo-war. In a bid to divert the nation's ever polarizing population from a war between the North and South; in 1857 President Buchanon launched the Army into the far regions of the frontier to put down a reported rebellion by the unpopular Mormons being led by Brigham Young. After a disasterous advance slowed by the Mormon's defensive actions of burning forage, and destroying wells the Army wintered in the smoking ruins of Fort Bridger, WY. While they waited for re-supply, negoiations with the Mormons discovered the magnitude of the mis-understanding and the desperate determination of a people driven from one home to another to be driven no more. A negoiated settlement allowed the Army entered Utah the following Spring unopposed and take-up residence around some natural springs mid-way from the two largest Mormon settlements of the day, Salt Lake City and Provo. They remained there, one third of the US Army at that time, until called home for the Civil War. Today the sight makes a nice sight for a picnic in mild weather. It consists of a small cementary, an archeological dig site, a stage-coach house/museum, and the one remaining Quartermaster Building that was serving a musuem the last time I visited. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Quiet Dave (talk • contribs) 19:10, 20 January 2006


 * The preceding was moved here from Talk:Camp Floyd, as this "tale" does not belong in the article space. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 21:14, 17 December 2010 (UTC)