Provo Indian War Veterans

Erected in 1909, this monument honors militia veterans of what settlers called the Provo Indian Wars — campaigns remembered very differently by the Timpanogos, whose village the militia besieged in 1850, whose men were executed after surrendering, whose women and children were sold into servitude. The stone records how the victors' generation chose to remember it: as service. Lee Friedlander photographed it in 1974 for The American Monument, his unsentimental survey of what Americans put on pedestals — the print now sits in the Smithsonian. What a town honors is itself a historical fact.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bridal Veil Falls — 8.1 mi
  A dramatic double waterfall cascading 607 feet into Provo Canyon
• Sundance Mountain Resort — 12 mi
  Robert Redford's intimate, arts-minded ski resort on the slopes of Mount Timpanogos, in the North Fork of Provo Canyon.
• Aspen Grove — 12 mi
  The mountain-base trailhead for Mount Timpanogos and Stewart Falls
• Alpine Loop Summit — 13 mi
  The 8,000-foot high point of the Alpine Loop, face to face with Mount Timpanogos

More markers nearby

• Provo's Liberty Bell — steps away
• Brigham Young Academy — 0.2 mi
• Provo Woolen Mills — 0.4 mi
• Old Tabernacle Lintel Stone — 0.4 mi