James Smithies Home
This article originally appeared in Pioneer Magazine, 2010 Vol.57 No.3 This home near bashall eaves (Barshe Lees) was once owned by James and Nancy Smithies.…
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Important Events in John Jaques’ Life
by Ruth Barlow john jaques was born 1 January 1827 in Bosworth, england, the son of Thomas and Mary Ann Heightington (middle class English). His…
A Brief History of the Utah County Building
by Richard G. Thayne In the early part of 1919, the citizens of Utah County and Provo City respectively voted bonds for the erection of…
Facts about Saltair
(1883) – (1957) Built by Salt Lake capital and Salt Lake workmen. Style of architecture: Moorish. Total cost: $600,000. Built on the waters of Great…
Dymock Parish Church
Just south of the Herefordshire area of england is the village of Dymock, Gloucestershire. During the second british mission, 1840–41, several individuals and events important…
Old Secret of Taming Horses
Undated clipping in files of the Alamo Library, Daughters of the Texas Revolution: A correspondent of the New York Express submits the following method of…
How they Got the Name: Colorful and Picturesque Places in Utah and Intermountain West
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_accordion style=”modern” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section title=”gosiute” tab_id=”1559197561895-d2ad79e3-4420″][vc_column_text] Gosiute is an Indian reservation west of the Deep Creek range of mountains in northwestern Juab County,
Did Fire Sound Knell of Majestic Saltair?
Grand Old ‘Lady Of The Lake’ 8th Wonder Of World Destroyed by $500,000 Blaze By Les Goates saltair, the grand old ‘Lady of the Lake’…
Pipe Spring, Arizona
By Robert W. Olsen Jr. Pipe Spring National Monument offers an insight into the history of a little-known corner of northern arizona. Located in the…
Barth Wagon Train 1864
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=”external_link” custom_src=”https://spartacus-educational.com/WWwagontrains4.JPG”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] By Robert Wagstaff Stories about St. Johns, arizona are many, but in the beginning brigham young and jacob hamblin from Santa…
The Faith of Mary Ann Wright
florence youngberg On the 20th of July 1816, in London, Middlesex, england, William and Mary Wright were blessed with a beautiful little daughter. She was…
Ledbury, Herefordshire England
This article originally appeared in Pioneer Magazine, 2010 Vo.57 No.3 Ledbury is noted as a market town in the region of southern Herefordshire, UK. Missionaries…
Downham, England
downham is also a village of charm and historical significance to the Latter-day Saints. This quaint site has seemingly experienced little change as time has…
General Alexander W. Doniphan, Friend of the Saints, Gives Counsel to the Battalion
By Carl V. Larson On Thursday, November 1, 1838, Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, Amasa Lyman and others were brought as prisoners into the camp of…
Barnoldswick, England
In early 1838 as their mission to Great britain was drawing to a close, Elders Heber C. Kimball and orson hyde resolved to organize and…
Letter from William Howells, Welsh Missionary in France to J. Davis
This article originally appeared in Pioneer Magazine, 1970 Vol.57 No.1 St. Servan, Brittany, September 10, 1849 July 2. Last day before starting on a mission…
Lest We Forget
[This article originally appeared in the Jan/Feb 1970 edition of Pioneer Magazine] The question might be asked, why do some men go about the cities…
An Artistic Heritage
By Mary A. Johnson As patrons visit the pioneer memorial museum, we receive many comments about the paintings they see on the walls. There are…
Early Missionary Tools for Preaching the Gospel
This article originally appeared in Pioneer Magazine, 1970 Vol. 57, No.1 by Linda Hunter Adams, BYU Professor Emeritus and editorial staff member of Pioneer magazine…
The Southern States Mission
This article originally appeared in Pioneer Magazine, 1970 Vol.57 No.1 The American South was a significant region for Mormon missionary work in the nineteenth century,…
A Decade-Long System of Cooperatives and United Orders in Zion
“Let every one of the Latter-day Saints, male and female, decree in their hearts that they will buy of nobody else but their own faithful…
St. Wilfred Street
This article originally appeared in Pioneer Magazine, 2010 Vol.57 No.3 In 1837, Elders Heber C. Kimball, orson hyde, and others began work as the first…
Eyes Still On Golden Spike
THE TRAINS are getting fewer and fewer and those that do run have difficulty finding enough passengers to pay expenses, but the great American railroad…
Fabulous Story of Utah’s Pioneer Village Stable and Show Ring Made into Far-Famed Museum
This article originally appeared in the May/June 1970 issue of Pioneer Magazine by Horace A. Sorenson, Founder-Director pioneer village The history of the West comes…
The Saga of “China Polly”
Pawn in Poker Games Becomes ‘Angel of salmon river’ It was not until late 1860 and early 1870 that Idaho began to be prospected for…
Provo’s Mud Wall, 1854
On July 18, 1853, indians killed a guard at fort payson, precipitating the walker war, which raged in much of Utah. brigham young advised the…
Lucy & Desi: The Scrapbooks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Four years ago, Lucie Arnaz, (the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz), decided to tell her parents’ story in a most unique way.…
Historical Sites in the United Kingdom
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This article originally appeared in Pioneer Magazine 2010, Vol.57 No.3 by Kenneth Mays, Trustee, Mormon Historic Sites Foundation; Instructor, SL University Institute of Religion…
Great Grandmother’s Soap Making Project
by Dale I. Nilson It was just an old shanty in Great Grandmother’s homestead town but what a wonderful building it was for only one…
The Making of Utah’s Dixie
This article originally appeared in Vol.54, No.4 (2007) of Pioneer Magazine. by Colleen Whitley Given the persecutions and extremities the Latter-day Saints had suffered in…
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