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PREFACE
I t was a clear, warm day. The atmosphere was so transparent that the mountains many miles ahead seemed to he just a stone's throw away. A young sandy-haired man with clear blue eyes was walking a l o n ~ leading a large sorrel horse through the sagehrnsh and cedar trees. Lehi, a youth of 16, was walking for a spell in order to rest himself and his horse, "Old Frank." H e picked his way through the yesetation avoiding the scrub oak and rocks. The day was unusually pleasant and the sky was a hilliant azure blue. He could hear the birds singing and an occasional fly buzzing along, mixed with the steady clip-clop of the horses' hoofs. Lehi came to a small stream running from a snowbank. H e stopped momentarily, let "Old Frank" have a drink, and then mounted with the ease and litheness of a cat. Lehi had ridden this path many times, hut today was special. H e had dreamed for a long time, never daring to think that this day could possihly become a reality, hut it really had. For months he had been filling in, riding the Pony Exprcss for a family whose boys were older and were rather undependable. O n many occasions, when these lmys had become involved in other more interesting pastimes at Bullionville, Nevada, Lehi's mother had called him up from the fields or from his chores to come and take the mail to meet them. Most of the time Lehi continued along the entire route. At first he kept a lookout for them, l ~ usoon t lcarned that he would find them in Bullionville, a gawdy, sprawling mining town in Eastern Iievada, which had grown u p overnight t o handle the rich silver ore which come out of pioche. Just a week before, Lehi and his mother had obtained the franchise for the Pony Expres route from Cedar City, Utah to Bullionville, Yevada. Uncle Henry Leigh had been very helpful in obtaining this for them. The man named Salisbury, who owned the franchise, refused to let a widow take such an .important jol) unless a man of reliability was willing to sponsor her in this ur~dertakinx.Lehi was proud of the responsibility he had, now he would be receiving a substantial salary of $20.00 a month, which would enable his mother and brothers and sister to live more comfortahly. H e could still see the smile on his mother's face and the lines of worry momentarily disappear when she received the news of the mail contract. It had been such a hardship on his mother, since his xi
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| Title | Lehi Willard Jones: Biography |
| Creator | Jones, York F., 1925-; Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Jones, Lehi Willard, 1854-1947; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History; Mormon Church -- Utah |
| Description | Life of Lehi Willard Jones, centering in Cedar City, Utah, 1854-1947, and history of much of the development of Southern Utah |
| Source | Lehi Willard Jones |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1972 |
| 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 |
| Publisher | Woodruff Printing Company |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lehiwillardjones.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1334.cpd |
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