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plains was so well organized that many of the prior problems had been solved and some diarists described the trip as a rather enjoyable event. Henry Lunt's company reached the Great Salt ~ a k valley on e August 28, 1850." After traveling through a deep ravine they reached the head of the canyon and came in 1 1 1 view of the Great Basin, to them the land of promise. They stopped and viewed the fertile valley spread out before them and the glistening waters of the Great Salt Lake, and they were excited to proceed into the settlement. They had journeyed more than a thousand miles through flats of the Platte River and plateaus of the Rocky Mountains, and over the burning sands and eternal sage regions, willow swales and rocky regions, and now had finally reached their destinati~n.~' What a grand view it was. Henry didn't delay in writing his family and Martha to tell them of his experiences. It had been just three years since Brigham Young and the fist Saints drove their wagons onto this site which, at that time, was a dry and treeless plain. For centuries the hot rays of the sun in summer and the cold blasts of wind in winter had ruled in this vast virtually unconquered inland basin. It presented a challenge to the ingenuity of the Mormonsjust to swvive. Few battles have so affected the destiny of a people as the battle fought between man and desert in the valleys of the Rockies those &st few years. For two years the result had been u c r a n but now the settlement of Salt Lake City had a population neti, of more than 11,000 inhabitants. When the wagon train arrived in the city, the first concern of the weary travelers was to find lodging, usually with settlers who already had homes. Many of them continued living in wagons, much as they had along the trek, until they could construct better facilities. Those who intended to establish permanent residence in Salt Lake City soon began to build their own homes. Henry, being unmarried, found it easy to work for his board and room Since the crops were ready to harvest, he helped in the fields with the vegetables and putting up the hay, as well as picking h i t and generally getting ready for winter A week or so after the company's arrival in the valley, Henry was ordained a Seventy in the church by Joseph Young.29 From time to time another company of Saints arrived in Salt Lake
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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