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HISTORY LESSONS: LeCompte, Frontier Doctor — Part 2

RBC | Lydia Wells was born in Salt Lake City, Utah 1856. She planned to marry Edward P. LeCompte in May of 1880. The ceremony was postponed when the Army transferred Edward  to the Camp on the White River. E.P. 

LeCompte was posted at the Camp on the White River May 1880 to August 21, 1882. I get the feeling that the Camp on the White River was a punitive assignment. Kind of like being…