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Datum: Montag, den 8. März 2004, um 16:33 Uhr
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Bet you didn’t know: More on the history of Provo

    More tidbits from T. Robert Carter’s history of early Provo.

    Picture imperfect: A picture hanging in Provost Elementary School -- supposedly of Provo’s namesake, trapper Etienne Provost -- actually depicts his contemporary, Jean Nicolet. Unlike the lean figure cut by Nicolet, Provost was rotund, "larding the lean earth as he walked along." And he rode a mule, not a horse. One Scot dubbed him the "burly Bacchus" after the ancient Greek god of wine.

    Fatal plunge: Provo’s Squaw Peak is named after a Ute Indian, reportedly Chief Old Elk’s wife, who fell to her death in 1850 while cornered by a Mormon militia in Rock Canyon.

    Head count: Soon after the 1850 Battle of Provo River, Army surgeon James Blake hired two Fort Utahns, James Orr and Abner Blackburn, to help him sever the heads of Utes the militia had killed. The doctor wanted the heads for "scientific" reasons. "Jim and me took the job in our own hands," Blackburn later wrote. "We were not going to wait on the surgeons [sic] slow motion. [We] jerked our knives out and had them all off in a few minutes. They were frozen and come off easy in our fassion [sic]."

    Cannon fodder: Cannons were fired more for psychological effect than results. Long Range, the cannon the militia employed against entrenched Utes in the Battle of Provo River, constantly overshot its target, prompting one Dutchman to exclaim, "By Got, poys, elevate it a little lower." As cannoneer William Walker later lamented: "The Indians laughed heartily at the ’harmless gun.’ "

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