B istory Colorful te ek SS : Guard's 2S | = ey a -_ nation was having ese Lo < its!” told this| the was ||Kiwanis Club aes Se pti Xe 3 SO PLB KEE PR ipa we; eee ne > , es we “oO ee me Noh =, 8 “et ~ Utah’s National Guard units, |i “Within three weeks of organization it was called into! q of In following years, members\ the Utah National Guard including those in Ogden, Hayes — ‘its first service in Ogden,” he } served in the Span ish-America had an honorable — and | said. Dr. Roberts said that in 1894 ) War, were assigned to border: jieolorful — history, the Ogden. . : patrol during a 1916 di : eee aj|,. eres “ bs . P Sn ~~ . / ispute} ‘!problem with unemployment ibs os ae the army? week. | depression and_ the’ In World ar 1 and again, Telling the tale of “The: jand War II and also sanvel we on in the march a started unemployed || den’s i Guard Korean War. National oe ras Oe | Washington, Pn ae HOS was. Dr. Past” nee eir wi j agovernment professor a ithe Roberts, associate history at Weber State College. He said a group of these men Present as guest of the club Utah ‘from Oakland and San Franwas . Jack Judkins, National Guard state chaplain. Dr. Roberts said the history of the National Guard in Utah began with the creation of the Nauvoo Legion in Nauvoo, Ill., in 1841 by the then-new LDS Church. FORMED BASIS cisco in California had obtained’ | jrailroad tickets to get them as} 4 far as Ogden. | Twelve hundred people came lin cattle cars; one man died, ‘said Dr. Roberts. The weather| Hah uae. over the high sierras took its) @ # iy tole Salida se Out of the Nauvoo Legion and “Utah's Gov. Caleb West heard’~ thelof the people coming and its experiences came military veterans which later|worried there might be trouble Pa!2 formed the basis for the Utah and on April 7, 1894, the . Old-time photo contributed by Ina G. national guard was called into guard, he said. This Mormon emigrant train is goingf through Echo canyon in 1860, - and over the Rockies. Wagon and push c 60 were service in Ogden at the request almost at the end of 7 its long wearing journey After the Mormons through the plains hardships before they reached their de _|driven out of the eastern states of Mayor Charles Brough. surrounded ‘and. settled in the Utah Units of the guard < * ne ‘territory, the Nauvoo Legion’ fought the Indians in numerous skirmishes and even took on the U.S. Army in what history calls the Californi@hs ‘and prevented . their exit from the crowded cattle cars, although later they the Utah War, according to Dr.'|were allowed into the railroad Roberts. He said the curred when slavery got -\polygamy. . yards, said Dr. Roberts. THREE DAYS the question of tied up with A court injunction was Utah War -|made ‘slaves — ob-| iy be clear who the were men The the or Guard National never complimented jlives but causing an © un‘comfortable winter when wagon itrains of supplies were -| destroyed. -| The legion also participated in the Civil War. | Then, according to Dr. | Roberts, outsiders were sent in the circle, unhitch waS/in Salt Lake City around the — : yes ,; ’ on their actions of the time, but later, as more middle of last century man Caney of the pene ringing ar Bie held on a situation powwows, and Sapam B\ Aad . 3 ° said during that period, clubs” | _ |H.C. Gilbert, G. W. Driver and! ei oe E. A. Olsen as captains, a> ~ cates Wal. iz) | ,of the Utah National Guard|) = | |were organized in Ogden with; =< * | a re tah ae > rahe RA Is a | nye.6Fee 4 Ds eee a : ot ee DP POPPNs 4 ~ oe 7 : ‘marching wi ee an t* . . a, , ; ; <y rate “<< a —_ - Se RE, se en. oe c gs ae en nt ey. ge Ne TN Bah, es ee ae te Sh e on . eS . a ne P ine ¥ “. c City. praries they trekked and over rugged mountains their © wagons rolled, these Mormon | pioneers pursuing a legend and adream. The legend they had gleaned from ports of early the Salt dream, moun- steep and again became involved as the®*#SSlands | Carbon County again in 1923, DUTY TOURS -|were organized which carried} According to Dr. Roberts, _|torches instead of weapons. edie duty tours became very | “Their purpose was to make tedious, partly because of their — |presentations in favor of their/ length, which caused employers — -\¢andidates (for territorial of-! of guard members to threaten © _ \fice),” said Dr. Roberts. : {their jobs, and partly because of ‘|: On March 27, 1894, three units|the winter weather. He “he en : a3 : is , _luel ° optimistic resettlements in Lake well, valley. it was The — the age- old hope for a promised land where every man has an equal chance. i fe above SSS photograph shows a Mormon emigrant train coming through Echo | canyon in 1860, almost’at the end of its long journey. Many pioneers did not own wagons and oxen, so pushed small Po eR, apy, filled with posses- sions all the way to Salt Lake cook dinner over a fire. Noth-_ ing as simple as spending the night at a hotel. the groups kept coming, sympathies know today were the thick ‘turned against them and Ogden ‘Utah, according to Dr. Roberts. jminers and the strikebreaker o* HAL 8k | Ogden units were called | THAT TIME | | iat ¥O.." handcarts “Through the monotonous — buffalo govern- transients began stealing trains, tains that the pioneers built ment and bad reports were said Dr. Roberts. their crude trails through. _|returned to Washington. Units from the Ogden areé Disputes between the Mor- were called to Provo where the . a ‘'mons and the gentiles resulted | transients had tipped over “No GAS stations stood by in the Edmunds Tucker Act of _ Stolen train. th ae oe , . 1887 which disbanded the legion. Dr. Roberts. said the guar¢ “aeroadside, and no painted | From then until March 26, was used to maintain orde1SignS announced mileage dis| 11894, when the state legislature thava_and in Ae 1 Wher evening came ented He € tances . When ‘passed a law creating the Utah ouard” was later \National Guard, there was no {County to maintain order be Ree emigrants would draw \state military organization in’) ween striking immigrant co;their wagons into a closed Oxy the oxen ‘and 4 that shouldn't have Fonmed me Peale. Bib. arictaelDeane Very different from the _ Then, even later, as the smooth concrete highways we territorial | numerous 4 suf tained and the people-left three fweesice journey, the wagon days later, said the professor. jtrain emigrants that arrived their of the groups headed for Aged.to.survive without gaso| wives. Washington arrived, sympathies line or the inviting motel. For .The»Nauvoo Legion fought a jturned to the unemployed and these Mormon wagon trains -)guerrilla war against the U.S. their plight. , ; \Army Jed by Gen. Albert The governor was accused followed Brigham Young way -|Sydney Johnston, taking no editorially by William back in the days when Indians to run + a By Madeleine : Craighead | « ' of polygamy it Bs ee ame ITH faith instead of radios to ease the long oc- NOT CLEAR According to Dr. Roberts, the -jopponents ——- ; | ae — me _ Some emigrant trains were wat, an pec we th ot == te Se