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Do celu tam się wysiada. Lec Stanisław Jerzy (pierw. de Tusch-Letz, 1909-1966)
A bogowie grają w kości i nie pytają wcale czy chcesz przyłączyć się do gry (. . . ) Bogowie kpią sobie z twojego poukładanego życia (. . . ) nie przejmują się zbytnio ani naszymi planami na przyszłość ani oczekiwaniami. Gdzieś we wszechświecie rzucają kości i przypadkiem wypada twoja kolej. I odtąd zwyciężyć lub przegrać - to tylko kwestia szczęścia. Borys Pasternak
Idąc po kurzych jajach nie podskakuj. Przysłowie szkockie
I Herkules nie poradzi przeciwko wielu.
Dialog półinteligentów równa się monologowi ćwierćinteligenta. Stanisław Jerzy Lec (pierw. de Tusch - Letz, 1909-1966)
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.Apparently he reached the mouth of Emi-gration Canyon, saw the settlement below, and said, It is enough.This is the right place.Drive on. As you continue with your sightseeing in Salt Lake City you maybegin to wonder whether the Shoshone ever lived near here, whetherBear River ever happened whether the whole damn thing was madeup.Consequently, The Fort Douglas Military Museum comes assomething of a relief.Located on Connor s original camp, not farfrom This Is the Place State Park in Emigration Canyon, Fort Douglasis now a small army base.Its museum is the only site where the Bat-tle of Bear River, as it there remains known, is indeed central to thedisplays regarding Connor and the California Volunteers.But the story is still flawed.At this battle, deemed an impres-sive victory by one of the displays, the Volunteers inflicted a deci-sive defeat on a band of 600 Shoshones, effectively ending furtherIndian resistance in that area. Of course the number was closer to450, not that numbers matter overly much.According to the mu-seum s brochure, the regiment won military supremacy over the gar-rison and began successful prospecting for mineral wealth in thesurrounding mountains. Garrison?In this museum, administered under the auspices of the U.S.Army Center of Military History (i.e., one of the few government-sponsored historical museums in Salt Lake City relatively uninflu-enced by church or state), the reason for the Volunteers s presence inthe city is given primarily as the necessary protection of the OverlandMail Route.But also, The Volunteers manned the camp becauseMormon loyalty to the Union during the Civil War was questionedby some northern states. The brochure states vaguely, In the earlyyears, the Army presence in Utah was unpopular with Mormon set-tlers, but the Fort ultimately became an integral part of the commu-nity and a treasured landmark. Connor, a display notes, has been called the first gentile of Utah, as well as (and more famously to contemporary Utah schoolchildren) the father of Utah mining. The display notes Connor s significantcontributions to Utah history after he mustered out of the military in1866: founder of the first daily newspaper (also the first secular news-paper); first to use electric light in the state; first to operate a steamer,his Kate Connor, on the lake; and founder of Stockton, Utah. 134 The Making of HistoryIn a small park outside the museum, a monument to Connorstands.But his burial place is at the Fort Douglas cemetery, now lo-cated outside of the base, a half mile away in rather oddly the cen-ter of an industrial park.In the middle of this small military cemeterystands a tall monument to the (white) casualties of Bear River.Thenames are listed by company.Individual graves are nearby.I m struck by something troubling in the arrangement of thegravestones.The men killed at Bear River, and their markers, facethe monument from the west just as the Shoshone would haveburied their dead, given the chance.The arrangement is startlingbecause the monument itself faces slightly west and north, and themen thus lie with their backs (so to speak) to the dramatic view ofthe Great Salt Lake Valley and their Mormon neighbors.Thearrangement is not, then, the intuitive choice; consequently, andwhatever the reason, it seems a strikingly purposeful architecture.Tall junipers shade Connor s grave; he too faces the monument, hisback to the valley that once resented his presence.A bronze tabletsports a bald eagle and a bust of Connor in relief, along withthese words:Patrick Edward ConnorBrigadier General and Brevet Major GeneralU.S.VolunteersBorn March 1820.Died December 17, 1891.Camped in This Vicinity With His California VolunteersOctober 20, 1862.Established Camp Douglas, Utah,October 26, 1862.Participated in the Battlesof Buena Vista, Bear River and Tongue River.The Father of Utah MiningErected 1930 by the Garrison of Fort Douglas, Utah,Assisted by the Utah Historical LandmarksAssociation and Patriotic Citizens of the West.Perhaps in Idaho, things will be better.After all, while the historyof the encounter at Bear River may have begun in Utah, you mustturn north, cross that magic line, to pursue its eventuality.Headed north on US-89, you pass through Logan, home of thepublic university nearest to the site of the Bear River Massacre andRape, Utah State University.After that, Franklin, and after that, Pre-ston.The wide, pretty streets of these quiet towns do not hint that something had just been done here. The Truth Tour 135Following US-91 out of Preston and toward Pocatello, you reachthe massacre site in a matter of minutes.The land drops sharplydown into this hollow few people have heard about.If you ve heard about it, the sharp, sudden, unexpected drop inthe road may be enough to start the spirits dancing on your tinglingspine.Here, the landscape is a crucial part of the emotional experi-ence of knowing What Happened.U.S.citizens who haven t heard may speed through this area at 65miles per hour (at least) and note nothing except perhaps an odd signthat hangs midway along the valley s pastureland a sign that marksthe entrance to a small trailer park
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