had to be cleared of sagebl-ush and greasewood. Heavy d r a p were made of tree trunks and poles, and the t~rushwas hurned. T h e plows were made of mountain mahogany and the shares of iron. Often, the land was hard and dry, and water for the...
worked so hard riding the Pony Express so that he could save a little money for himself above the needs of the family to afford some good clothes and real shoes. Up until this time he had worn only the clothes sewn by his mother and nioccasins on...
heavy rock at their heads. Brother Bulloch was standing guard for the mother bear while I was throwing at the little cubs. I, also; was squinting around too. Finally, I got them killed." "The next thing - what to do with the little ones? Brother...
The horses had been tied up to the wagons and everyone was asleep. Henry was riding a desert mustang which, as soon as the cattle made a commotion, took off over the wagon tongue and over a nearby fence, in the opposite direction from the herd. The...
lose their lives, than not. They decided to get out while they could. They loaded a little of the already sawed lumber onto the outfits and started back. They stopped for the night in a grove of pines near the Upper Mammoth. By morning, the snow...
Everyone in the Jones family worked hard because it was a necessity. Henrietta was no exception, she could drive four horses as good as any man. When the family moved to town from 3-Creeks in the fall of 1904, school had started. Will was the only...
July 17, 1897; Elton Lunt Jones, born Jan. 22, 1901 ; and Preston Lunt Jones, born Mar. 6, 1904. Kumen's Journal includes this statement about Thomas Jed: ".4s a child he started out with a happy disposition, and with a rather mechanical turn, and...
O u t of this spirit of cooperation came lasting friendship and loyalty to each other and to their community. I feel that those men and women who built our foundations have a right to a ~ the question; "Will those k who follow us live up to our...
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happy and agreeable." Naturally, one of the favorite family activities was when John and Orpha would take the children for ice cream cones. John would always get a lick at each of the cones to keep it from...
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the trappings and messiness associated with these hobbies. White mice on the loose in the house came very near to ending her toleration for all these projects, but the mice were captured, in a trap fashioned from an erector set, and...
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reservation. Various Christian churches had established missions for the Hopi people on the reservation, and some in their zeal had failed to follow established rules before building. John describes how this affected the...
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serene resignation that life's journey is about to end, has not thought about the eternal destination and what might be there? Centuries ago the man Job, so long blessed with material blessings, only to find...
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for they die as to things pertaining to things of righteousness; for they are unclean, and no unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of God; but they are cast out, and consigned to partake of the fruits of...
We pray that Thy spirit will continue to be with him and guide his footsteps as he now journeys in Thy presence, and in a like manncr we ask that Thou wilt bless all of us, that we may do that which is fitting, that we may do the things which we...
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
began counting the number of times we crossed the wash, but gave it up as a lost cause. We saw a live bunny. We ate more of our lunches. We lost one straw hat to Emily who threw it over the cliff' into the ravine. We stampeded some cattle, saw two...
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PAHUTE LEGENDS
William R. Palmer
1958
OH 0598
How The Eagle Became Bald-headed
It sometimes happened in the long ago that some living thing went bad and became a source of trouble to all the others. Sometimes they wrought so much sorrow and...
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Heber J. Grant understood that he needed to receive the blessing of John W. Woolley but because of his jealousy and overinflated ego, was unwilling to accept that another person held a higher power than himself. Because...
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rightful succession. As proof that the people of Centennial Park had chosen wisely to follow their leaders to a new community, the speaker referenced the abuses Warren Jeffs perpetrated and the chaos and uncertainty his...
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Park. These polygamists considered themselves to be good people and it was emotionally painful for them when they felt unfairly characterized by people who were ignorant of their culture or actively and knowingly...