Chapter Xviii. A Tenderfoot's Romance : CHAPTER XVIII A TENDERFOOTS ROMANCE "How happy Id be with either, Were tother dear charmer away." "Old Melody" THIS is a story of divided affections, which threatened at one time to end in the divided lives of two young people. Youth has its romances, and so had the youth, Clarence Waterman. I w...
Chapter Xix. Mind As The Master Worker : CHAPTER XIX MIND AS THE MASTER WORKER "Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered." "Daniel Webster" IN this age of applied psychology it is interesting and educative to note the mastery of mind over matter in the settlement, by...
Foreword : FOREWORD This book is neither a History nor a Topography of the Territory of Utah in the early seventies of the last century. The volume is due to the experiences of an outsider who tried to be impartial in his views and sympathies. The personal note, of course, rings in this record of those past...
Chapter Xii. The Passing Prophet : CHAPTER XII THE PASSING PROPHET "Your Fathers, where are they? And the Prophets, do they live forever?" "Bible" THERE he goes! The fraud 1 The cheat 1" Ole Petersen, of Ephraim townsite, in the San Pete valley, added some vigorous oaths and gestures to these words. He was an angry man striding back...
Chapter V. The Co Operative Industry Of Utah : CHAPTER V THE CO-OPERATIVE INDUSTRY OF UTAH "How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower" "Watts" VERY suggestive of the Mormon view of industry and business are the two symbols chosen to represent the co-operation of the people...
List Of Illustrations : LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Sage Brush Buffalos Great Salt Lake Salt Lake Desert Rocky Mountains Wasatch Mountains Dead Mans Falls, Little Cottonwood Bears Next: Foreword
Chapter Ii. A Far West City : CHAPTER II A FAR WEST CITY "Westward the course of Empire takes its way" "Berkley" SALT LAKE CITY was a real city for that day. It was not an electrically wired and telephonic town, for all those and related conveniences were then unknown to the multitude. The telephone was yet in its infancy...
Chapter Iv. Church, State And Camp : CHAPTER IV CHURCH, STATE AND CAMP "He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses-" "Cowper" THE ecclesiastical is first in evidence in this modern city of the saints. This you would expect in view of its earlier...
Chapter Vii. A Long Ride Through Utah Valley : CHAPTER VII A LONG RIDE THROUGH UTAH VALLEY "It were a journey like the path to Heaven, To help you find them." "Milton" IT was the midsummer of 1876, when I was invited to take a long distance drive through these Mormon settlements, with a missionary. He was not a Mormon missionary, however, but...
Chapter Xvi. The Town And Canyon Of American Fork : CHAPTER XVI THE TOWN AND CANYON OF AMERICAN FORK "So green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." "Milton" THE town of American Fork is a picturesque little place. It is situated beyond the point of the mountain divide th...
Chapter Xiv. The Old Prospector : CHAPTER XIV THE OLD PROSPECTOR "Riches certainly make themselves wings" "Proverbs" THE prospector is the man that makes mining possible. It is his enterprise, his everlasting faith in prospects, his nerve and calm courage, that does the trick. He casts a charm about lone grey hills whose land value...
Chapter Xvii. Tenderfoot Superintendents : CHAPTER XVII TENDERFOOT SUPERINTENDENTS "Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground: Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive and successive rise." "Pope" I WAS a Tenderfoot, in the vernacular of the camp, but there were...
Chapter Xv. A Lively Mining Camp : CHAPTER XV A LIVELY MINING CAMP "Thus far into the bowels of the land, Have we marched without impediment." "Shakespeare" IF Alta City, as its name suggests, is a lofty camp, Bingham City, in the opposite range of the Oquirreh Mountains, was a lively camp. I had often wished to see a typical mining...
Untitled : TENDERFOOT DAYS GEORGE ROBERT BIRD [1918] This is a memoir by a non-Mormon about his experiences in the prospecting camps of Utah at the turn of the 19th century. It was donated to sacred-texts by the anonymous volunteer who goes by the name of 'Some Dude'. This is a first-person perspective by...
Chapter Xx. A Latter Day View Of A Latter : CHAPTER XX A LATTER DAY VIEW OF A LATTER DAY STATE "Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events, and in to-day already, walks tomorrow." "Coleridge" I REMEMBER that it was the great fear of the Gentile and liberal element in the Territory, that if the United States Congress...
Chapter I. Going West In 1874 : IN TERRITORIAL UTAH CHAPTER I GOING WEST IN 1874 I WAS one of the multitude of young men who heeded Horace Greeleys advice, "Go West, young man, go West!" in the days when he was the ruling spirit of the New York Tribune. Discredited as a prospective president by the people at the polls, he yet w...
Chapter Viii. Through Spanish Fork Cany : CHAPTER VIII THROUGH SPANISH FORK CANYON AND THISTLE VALLEY "Now let us sing, Long live the King, And Gilpin, long live he; And when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see!" "Cowper" NEXT day we pushed our slow way up Spanish Fork Canyon. Some faint tradition of the early Spaniards...
Chapter Iii. Pilgrims To A Modern Zion : CHAPTER III PILGRIMS TO A MODERN ZION "Far from the worldly crowds and strife, To a visioned city, they toiled their weary way, Seeking amid towering hills the sequestered life Of a peculiar people, a holy nation of the latter day." "Bird" JERUSALEM of old, the city of song, sacrifices and tears...
Chapter Xiii. The Mixed Multitude : CHAPTER XIII THE MIXED MULTITUDE "The Many-headed Multitude." "Shakespeare" IT was to avoid the so-called mixed multitude that the Latter Day Saints sought an isolation for themselves, and their posterity from the every-day world. In this they were the followers of the ancient people of Israel...
Chapter X. Behind The Curtain : CHAPTER X BEHIND THE CURTAIN "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee" "Shakespeare" AFIELD fence in Utah often occasions a marked contrast in the appearance of the soil. On one side of it there is green alfalfa, peach and plum trees as thrifty...
Chapter Xi. The Creed That Caused The Deed : CHAPTER XI THE CREED THAT CAUSED THE DEED "So many gods, so many creeds! So many paths that wind and wind, When just the art of being kind Is all this sad world needs." "Ella Wheeler Wilcox" THE shot does not leave the gun unless there is a powder charge behind it. The things which I have noted...
Chapter Vi. The Valley Settlements : CHAPTER VI THE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS "The desert shall rejoice and blossom like a rose." "Bible" A STRING of valleys, rich of soil, but scant of water, stretched from north to south in this territory from Salt Lake City to Saint George. It was the policy of these people to occupy the l...
Chapter Ix. Opposition To The Liberal Schools : CHAPTER IX OPPOSITION TO THE LIBERAL SCHOOLS "The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array." "Lord Brougham" MOUNT PLEASANT, the town to which I conducted my reader in the previous chapter, was the scene of the first firm st...
