in the CAMP FLOYD, UTAH, By T h o m a s G. A l e x a n d e r a n d L e o n a r d J . Arrington
On June 26, 1858, approximately 2,500 United States troops and another 1,000 civilian employees marched and rode down Emigration Canyon and into the peaceful Salt Lake Valley. As they tramped through Salt Lake City, though they had spent the preceding fall and winter opposThomas Alexander is assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University. Leonard Arrington is professor of economics at U t a h State University. This article was written under a grant from the U t a h State University Research Council. The main sources of information for this article are D o n Richard Mathis, " C a m p Floyd in Retrospect" (Master's thesis, University of U t a h , 1959) ; Norman Furniss, The Utah Conflict, 1850-1859 (New Haven, I960) ; Leonard J. Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 (Cambridge, 1958), 1 6 1 - 9 9 ; " C a m p Floyd at Fairfield, U t a h : July 8, 1858-July 27, 1861," an address given on June 2 1 , 1959, by Harold P. Fabian, chairman of the U t a h State Park and Recreation Commission at the dedication of a plaque in commemoration of the founding of the Rocky Mountain Lodge No. 205, the first Masonic lodge in U t a h ; the diaries of John Wolcott Phelps in the New York Public Library (microcopy, Brigham Young University Library) ; J . Cecil Alter and Robert J. Dwyer, eds., Journal of Captain Albert Tracy, 1858-1860, Utah Historical Quarterly, X I I I ( 1 9 4 5 ) , 1-128; Richard W. Jones, "Travel Diary of Richard Wilds Jones, 1859," in the Depauw University Archives (microcopy, U t a h State Historical Society) ; Charles A. Scott, "Charles A. Scott's Diary of the U t a h Expedition, 18571861," U.H.Q., X X V I I I (April, October, 1960), 155-76, 3 8 9 - 4 0 2 ; and Richard Thomas Ackley, "Across the Plains in 1858," U.H.Q., I X (July, October, 1941), 190-228.
