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him, and while talking, Lehi found that he was a school teacher there in Bulliunville, 11ythe name of Bob Ricards. they were talking, a large man who walked by, appeared to be intoxicated. Mr. Ricards called out the word "stage," which meant a person who had more to drink than he could handle. This apparently was a fighting word in those days. The nlan wanted lo know who had called him that and Bob Ricards said, "He did?" pointing to Lehi. T h e man immediately took a swing at Ricards who was very small in stature. Ricards ducked just in time and came up fighting and. with one hlow, knocked the man out flat on the street. Bob Ricards invitcd Lehi to stay in his hotel room with him, and from that time on he didn't have to put up with the discomforts of the livery stahlc. Later, Boll Ricards moved to Cedar City and married a girl from Kanarraville. Lehi found out that he had been well-trained in boxing, and at one time, had almost been professional. This explained how he was able to knock out a man who was nearly twice his size.z2 While riding pony express dul-ing the winter, Lehi wrote, "I have made the entire trip without seeing anyone between stations. That would he at a time of extreme rold and stonny weather." O n one such trip during the winter, Lehi was riding hetween Pinto and Hebron. H e writes, "At one turn in the road, I saw an object lyiug some distance ahead and I said to myself, what have I found this morning? Upon riding u p to the object I found it to 11e a man lying on his l~ack the middle in of the wagon road. I t was a n extrcmely rold day and everything was frozen. His hat was lying near1)y and his watch was out of his pocket. I remained on my horse for a minute or two, then I dismounted and esamined the man more closely and concluded from the evidence that I could see, that he must have had a team and that he had fallen on his head at the hind legrr of the hones, probably tlreaking his neck in the fall. From the track of the wagon, the horses had turned short to the right in the direction they were conling from and had gone back outside of the road for a distance of ahout two hundred yards then turned hack onto the road again. When the horses came to where the body was lying, they just turned out a little and went on their way to where they had been accustomed to staying for the night. That morning I had started from Pinto at five o'clock (two hours before daylight) and as I passed the old Holt ranch at the mouthof Mountain Meadow Canyon, when it was just coming daylight, I noticed a team hitched to a covered wagon standing with their heads over the bars that led into the Holt farm. This was the team helonging to the dead man. H e had left Hehron the evening before expecting to stop for the night at Holt's Ranch. After lookins over t h i n g a few minutes, without touch in^ an!thing. I got on my horse and rode into Het~ron and notified the Postmaster of what I had seen. H e

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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
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Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
Website	http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lehiwillardjones.html
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Description	him, and while talking, Lehi found that he was a school teacher there in Bulliunville, 11ythe name of Bob Ricards. they were talking, a large man who walked by, appeared to be intoxicated. Mr. Ricards called out the word "stage" which meant a person who had more to drink than he could handle. This apparently was a fighting word in those days. The nlan wanted lo know who had called him that and Bob Ricards said, "He did?" pointing to Lehi. T h e man immediately took a swing at Ricards who was very small in stature. Ricards ducked just in time and came up fighting and. with one hlow, knocked the man out flat on the street. Bob Ricards invitcd Lehi to stay in his hotel room with him, and from that time on he didn't have to put up with the discomforts of the livery stahlc. Later, Boll Ricards moved to Cedar City and married a girl from Kanarraville. Lehi found out that he had been well-trained in boxing, and at one time, had almost been professional. This explained how he was able to knock out a man who was nearly twice his size.z2 While riding pony express dul-ing the winter, Lehi wrote, "I have made the entire trip without seeing anyone between stations. That would he at a time of extreme rold and stonny weather." O n one such trip during the winter, Lehi was riding hetween Pinto and Hebron. H e writes, "At one turn in the road, I saw an object lyiug some distance ahead and I said to myself, what have I found this morning? Upon riding u p to the object I found it to 11e a man lying on his l~ack the middle in of the wagon road. I t was a n extrcmely rold day and everything was frozen. His hat was lying near1)y and his watch was out of his pocket. I remained on my horse for a minute or two, then I dismounted and esamined the man more closely and concluded from the evidence that I could see, that he must have had a team and that he had fallen on his head at the hind legrr of the hones, probably tlreaking his neck in the fall. From the track of the wagon, the horses had turned short to the right in the direction they were conling from and had gone back outside of the road for a distance of ahout two hundred yards then turned hack onto the road again. When the horses came to where the body was lying, they just turned out a little and went on their way to where they had been accustomed to staying for the night. That morning I had started from Pinto at five o'clock (two hours before daylight) and as I passed the old Holt ranch at the mouthof Mountain Meadow Canyon, when it was just coming daylight, I noticed a team hitched to a covered wagon standing with their heads over the bars that led into the Holt farm. This was the team helonging to the dead man. H e had left Hehron the evening before expecting to stop for the night at Holt's Ranch. After lookins over t h i n g a few minutes, without touch in^ an!thing. I got on my horse and rode into Het~ron and notified the Postmaster of what I had seen. H e 46
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