30 Days November 1910: S 13 Raining Dan & Family came in about noon. M 14 Raining Went out to the South field. T 15 Rain on mountains hauled up another load of corn. W 16-Th 17 made a few post card pictures F 18 Rain. I went up canal got...
The Swasey Brothers on the San Rafael Swell made their living wrangling the wild horses along with their own, then breaking them and selling them. The tradition continued into the next generation. These are some wild horses broken by the Swaseys....
Emery County (Utah); Historic Structures; Historic Buildings; Fires; Huntington; Schools
Addie Richards attended Huntington School when it caught fire and burned in 1923. According to Addie, the teachers could not get the school board to build a fire escape for the second floor, so the Principal Leon Leonard and sixth grade teacher...
Huntington Elementary School burned down in 1922. All the children safely made it out of the school due to a new fire escape that had recently been installed.
Henry worked in the store with the idea of saving his earnings, not to be a merchant, but to travel to America to be with other Mormons. Jeter Clinton was in charge of organizing the 402 Saints who boarded the ship Argo. They left England Jan. 10,...
Grandfather's team for the long joumey to the valley of the Great Salt Lake consisted of a yoke of oxen and cows. The company that they joined was known as the Independent Immigration Company as each family owned its own outfit independent of the...
Altogether, Cedar City seems to be a thrifty settlement and a good place for men to go who wish to get a start. Bishop Lunt informs us that they desire more population, and they are wilhg to give settlers land to cultivate and water to imgate it....
men as t r e s waking,' and for even that cloudy vision he was thankful. As he said after prayers that day, 'It might be the Lord's will to grant him sight, and if so his faith should not be wanting to enable him to lay hold of the blessing. '...
"turn up their coat collars and, as much as posible, tum their backs to the storm until it passed over." The Federal officers were clearly determined to stand by each other and manipulate the machinery of govemment for the oppression of the...
who had not yet come to mal or unpnsonment were m constant hiding in order to escape the clutches of laws deemed by them to be unconstitutional. Husbands were separated fiom wives and, in many instances, children fiom their 1parents. Homes that had...
see him. Father picked up a piece of pie and ran to Webster's, a neighbor, to warn him that the officers were there.' President JohnTaylor died July 25, 1887. Taylor had done much to hold the Saints together during the polygamy persecutions....
where he met two officers of insurredonary forces with about 35 men each. They had a signed order fiom General Salazar to seize al1 horses, guns and ammunition from the Amencans residing at that place. One of the officers, Mamfo by name,...
father died eig:ht ycars ago, to care for his younger brothers and sister and try to earn a little money here and there to keep the small ten acre farm goill:. Lchi had tried to 11eas helpful as possible, chopping wood for peoplc m d helping out in...
beef was hidden in thick timber some distance from ramp, while they had been wishing for meat for supper and breakfast, all but one prospector made a hasty getaway before our boys returned from the day's ride." " As I was riding out that morning...
Iron County, and perhaps the other southern counties likewise, commissioned these guards as deputy county sheriffs, and that did put a little "crimp" in the thieving operations. Thirty-eight men were convicted of grand larceny in the District Court...
STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 66
believed that abuse was rare in their community, but because of the distrust of the dominant culture and especially leadership figures, polygamists often did not see appealing to police or social programs as an option to...
STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 69
Several of the people in Centennial Park recognized former friends and family members, from before the split, in news footage. Although many of the younger generation believed that episodes like the 1953 raid would not be...
Fishback Intern 32
changes your attitude toward them. It is for this reason that apologies were invented! Genuine regret expressed to another person not only automatically takes you out of the box, it very, very often takes them out of the box...