Ephraim Hanks
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Ephraim Knowlton Hanks was a prominent member of the 19th-Century Latter Day Saint movement, a Mormon pioneer and a well known leader in the early settlement of Utah.
Ephraim Hanks in 1889.
Timpanogos
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The Timpanogos are a tribe of Ute Native Americans who inhabited a large part of central Utah, in particular the area from Utah Lake east to the Uinta Mountains and south into present-day Sanpete Coun
Ephraim Hanks
…the Mormon emigrants from the west, traveling from California to the Salt Lake Valley. In 1850, when Brigham Young authorized a campaign against the Timpanogos, he volunteered as part of the Mormon militia. On February 8, in what was known as the Battle at Fort Utah, the army attacked the Timpanogos village…
Mt. Timpanogos, named for the tribe
Fort Utah in 1850
The Great Heart of Timpanogos, inside Timpanogos Cave, a cave inside Mount Timpanogos