Camp Floyd Utah, Adobe Town and Frogtown in Fairfield Utah
Camp Floyd Utah's Adobe Town was also known as Frogtown because of its civilian camp followers. This made Fairfield the 3rd largest city in Utah in 1859. Take an animated tour of the Stage Coach Inn and the 17 taverns and gambling halls outside of the Camp's main gate.
Camp Floyd Utah 1860 Video #4
Camp Floyd computer animated tour with caption over the tune of When Johnny Comes Marching Home. See the Redoubt, Stores, Hospital and Sutlers buildings. See the Adobe Officers Quarters in a tour through where 1/3 of the US Army was stationed at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Camp Floyd Documentary Trailer
This is a short preview trailer for the upcoming documentary about Utah's historic Camp Floyd. The final video will be available for viewing at the Camp Floyd / Stagecoach Inn State Park and Museum in Fairfield, UT. Believing Mormons were rebelling against the laws of the United States, President James Buchanan dispatched 3,500 troops, nearly one-third of the entire U.S. Army, to suppress the rumored rebellion in Utah. This historic documentary tells the tale of Camp Floyd, the forgotten city in the desert.
Official Documentary | Camp Floyd - Forgotten City In The Desert
Step back in time with this historical documentary about the pre-civil war troops who were sent to the Utah Territory to squell the Mormon Uprising and the legacy they left behind.
In it's time, Camp Floyd was one of the United States most strategically important military outposts. The Largest Military base in the country and the second largest city in Utah, Camp Floyd's legacy is now little more than a single commissary building. This documentary brings to light the story of Camp Floyd through the eyes of soldiers, immigrants, slaves and Mormons.
More information about Camp Floyd can be found on the web.
This documentary is a project developed in conjunction with the UVU History Department and the UVU Digital Media Department, giving history and film students an opportunity to gain hands on experience within a production environment.
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Camp Floyd Utah Animated Arial Tour Vob6.1 2:5 Mins
Circle tour of Limehouse, Guardhouse, Hospital, Storehouses, Oil Factory showing the Field Staff described in captions. Dulcimer music and the song Johnny is My Darling.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)